I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5044 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 12, 2019 Mr. Bost (for himself, Mr. Lowenthal , Mr. Brindisi , Mr. Banks , Mr. Cisneros , Mr. Bilirakis , Mr. Pappas , Mr. Cox of California , and Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services , and in addition to the Committee on House Administration , for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To grant a Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to the men and women of the United States Armed Forces and Merchant Marine, as well as citizen and non-citizen civilians who served honorably with the U.S. military, who were surrendered, captured, or abandoned to become prisoners of war (POWs) of Imperial Japan throughout the Japanese Empire in the Pacific Theater of World War II from December 7, 1941, to September 2, 1945.