01 September 2016 — Philippine Consul General to New York Generoso D.G. Calonge met with Congressman Randall Mark “Randy” Hultgren of the 14th Congressional District of Illinois immediately after returning from a mobile consular mission in Bismarck, North Dakota to push for the passage of the Congressional Gold Medal Act for Filipino Veterans of World War II. Consul General Calonge and Congressman Hultgren discussed the matter in Campton Hills, Illinois on August 29.
Congressman Hultgren said that the 95 signatures still needed for the proposed measure to pass the House of Representatives should now be one less, as he expressed his willingness to sign as co-sponsor.
Consul General Calonge conveyed an invitation for the three-term Congressman, who is of Swedish descent, to consider joining the US-Philippines Friendship Caucus in addition to his being a member of the Congressional Friends of Sweden Caucus. END