H.Res. 257 · 109th Congress
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Pasqualine J. Lawson of Denver, Colorado, an African American woman who valiantly served her country in the Army Air Corps during World War II and serving as a hospital neuropsychiatric team member, was unfairly passed over for promotion and should have held the grade of technical sergeant, rather than private first class, upon her discharge from the service on January 2, 1946.
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Diana DeGette
- Introduced
- 2005-05-04
- Latest action
- 2005-06-28 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Summary
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Pasqualine J. Lawson, while in the Army Air Corps during World War II and serving as a hospital neuropsychiatric team member, was unfairly passed over for promotion and should have held the grade of technical sergeant, rather than private first class, upon her discharge on January 2, 1946.