The bill was also passed in honor of Senator Charles Sumner who had previously attempted to pass a civil rights bill in 1872.
She submitted a report to lawmakers showing how Browder "deceived the U.S. administration" into passing sanctions in honor of Magnitsky, she told the Russian state-owned media outlet Sputnik.
I pass one named in honor of the pirate Long John Silver, which serves assorted treasures from the sea.
All year long, politicians in parliament and the Kremlin railed against the prospect that the U.S. Congress would pass a law in honor of the late whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky, targeting the corrupt Russian tax and police officials who had a hand in his case.
"In Ramallah today, a joyous celebration as hundreds of youths urinated on American flags, set tires on fire, and hurled rocks at a passing Icelandic diplomat in honor of Grandmother's Day.
The U.S. state of New Mexico's House of Representatives passed a resolution in honor of Tombaugh, a longtime resident of that state, which declared that Pluto will always be considered a planet while in New Mexican skies and that March 13 , 2007 was Pluto Planet Day.
In 2007, Congress passed a law, named in honor of a 2-year-old child crushed as his father backed down the driveway, that effectively required the installation of rear-view video cameras in cars.
He said the next governor would have a strong voice if same-sex marriage was put up for a vote again in 2012, and he said that measures recently passed in Sacramento — including a holiday in honor of Harvey Milk, the slain gay rights leader, and a bill to help prevent gay teen suicides — could not have overcome a governor's veto.
For most of his life, he looked out at the city from the nineteenth floor of the Beresford, where from his large patio he could gaze south down Central Park West toward Broadway, which dimmed its lights in honor of his passing.
