,i  #aadth ,,congress  #b;d ,session    
,h4 ,r4 #dced  ,,in ,,the ,,house ,,of  
,,representatives  ,january #h1 #bjaf   
,mr4 ,gosar 7for himself1 ,mr4 ,babin1  
,mrs4 ,black1 ,mr4 ,de,santis1 ,mr4     
,jones1 ,mr4 ,miller of ,florida1 ,mr4  
,rigell1 ,mrs4 ,walorski1 ,mr4 ,harris1 
,mr4 ,burgess1 ,mr4 ,trott1 ,mr4        
,salmon1 ,ms4 ,speier1 ,mr4 ,palazzo1   
,ms4 ,mc,sally1 ,mr4 ,franks of         
,arizona1 and ,mr4 ,huffman7 introduced 
the following bill2 which was referred  
to the ,committee on the ,judiciary1 and
 in addition to the ,committee on       
,oversight and ,government ,reform1 for 
a period to be subsequently determined  
by the ,speaker1 in each case for       
consideration of such provisions as fall
 within the jurisdiction of the         
committee concerned  ,a ,,bill  ,to     
affirm the power of the ,president to   
revoke the ,presidential ,medal of      
,freedom awarded to ,bill ,cosby and to 
provide for criminal penalties for      
anyone who wears or publicly displays a 

,presidential ,medal of ,freedom that   
has been revoked4  #a4 ,sense of        
,congress that the ,president should    
revoke the ,presidential ,medal of      
,freedom awarded to ,bill ,cosby  7a7   
,findings ,congress finds the following3
 7#a7 ,established in #aifc and bestowed
 by the ,president of the ,united       
,states1 the ,presidential ,medal of    
,freedom is the highest civilian honor  
of our ,nation4  7#b7 ,the ,presidential
 ,medal of ,freedom is awarded to       
recipients for especially meritorious   
contributions to the security or        
national interests of the ,united       
,states1 to world peace1 or to cultural 
or other significant public or private  
endeavors4  7#c7 ,william ,henry ,bill  
,cosby1 ,jr4 7in this subsection        
referred to as ,cosby71 received the    
,presidential ,medal of ,freedom in     
#bjjb4  7#d7 ,in recent months1 more    
than #ej women have come forward and    
conveyed disturbing accounts of sexual  
assault and drugging by ,cosby4  7#e7   

,the statute of limitations has expired 
for many of these incidents1 and as a   
result1 the majority of these women will
 never get their day in court4  7#f7    
,according to the ,new ,york ,daily     
,news1 court documents obtained by the  
,associated ,press on ,monday1 ,july #g1
 #bjae1 revealed that ,cosby admitted   
under oath that he bought ,quaaludes to 
dope the women he wanted to grope--and  
slipped the sedative to at least one    
lady and other people4  7#g7 ,during a  
deposition on ,september #bi1 #bjje1 a  
lawyer1 ,dolores ,troiani1 asked ,cosby1
 ,when you got the ,quaaludes1 was it in
 your mind that you were going to use   
these ,quaaludes for young women that   
you wanted to have sex with8 and ,cosby 
answered ,yes44  7#h7 ,on ,december #cj1
 #bjae1 prosecutors from ,montgomery    
,county1 ,pennsylvania1 charged ,cosby  
with three counts of felony aggravated  
indecent assault for allegedly drugging 
and sexually assaulting a young woman in
 #bjjd4  7#i7 ,the prosecutors noted in 

an affidavit of probable cause that     
,cosby obtained seven separate          
prescriptions for ,quaaludes that he did
 not personally ingest1 nor ever        
intended to personally ingest and that  
the victim's substantially impaired     
condition prevented her ability to      
consent1 or even defend herself from    
,cosby's sexual assault4  7#aj7 ,cosby  
has admitted to drugging women with the 
intention to satisfy his sexual desires1
 and1 therefore1 the ,federal           
,government should not recognize ,cosby 
with an honor like the ,presidential    
,medal of ,freedom4  7b7 ,sense of      
,congress ,it is the sense of ,congress 
that the ,president should revoke the   
,presidential ,medal of ,freedom awarded
 to ,william ,henry ,bill ,cosby1 ,jr4  
#b4 ,criminal penalty for wearing or    
displaying a revoked ,presidential      
,medal of ,freedom  7a7 ,in general     
,chapter #cc of title #ah1 ,united      
,states ,code1 is amended by adding at  
the end the following3  #gag4 ,revoked  

,presidential ,medal of ,freedom        
,whoever1 with the intent to defraud any
 person1 wears or publicly displays a   
,presidential ,medal of ,freedom that   
has been declared to be revoked by the  
,president shall be fined under this    
title or imprisoned for not more than   
one year1 or both4  4  7b7 ,clerical    
amendment ,the table of sections at the 
beginning of chapter #cc of title #ah1  
,united ,states ,code1 is amended by    
inserting after the item relating to    
section #gaf the following3  #gag4      
,revoked ,presidential ,medal of        
,freedom4  4