A bill to award the 1980 United States men’s Olympic hockey team the Congressional Gold Medal passed the U.S. Senate on Monday.

The Senate’s unanimous action moves the team that defeated the Soviet Union in the “Miracle on Ice” at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics, and won the Olympic gold medal two days later, closer to receiving the U.S. Congress' highest honor.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act by voice vote on April 28. The measure will now go back to the House for a minor amendment before it goes to the White House to be signed into law by President Donald Trump.

Once signed, three medals would be minted and presented at a ceremony on Capitol Hill. The medals will then be housed at the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in Eveleth, Minnesota

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