Ronald Reagan Dime Act - Amends Federal law governing coins and currency to require dime coins issued after a certain date to bear the likeness of President Ronald Reagan.
[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3633 Introduced in House (IH)]
108th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3633
To provide for dime coins to bear the likeness of President Ronald
Reagan, the Freedom President, in honor of his work in restoring
American greatness and bringing freedom to captive nations around the
world.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
November 21, 2003
Mr. Souder (for himself, Mr. Hastert, Mr. DeLay, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Cantor,
Mr. Cox, Mr. Dreier, Mrs. Myrick, Mr. DeMint, Mr. King of New York, Ms.
Dunn, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. Crane, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina,
Mrs. Jo Ann Davis of Virginia, Mr. Carter, Mr. Goode, Mr. Linder, Mr.
Rohrabacher, Mr. Gallegly, Mr. Doolittle, Mr. Pombo, Mr. Hunter, Mr.
Franks of Arizona, Mr. Akin, Mr. Feeney, Mr. Buyer, Mr. Tiahrt, Mr.
Brady of Texas, Mr. Chocola, Mr. Culberson, Mr. Burgess, Mr.
Cunningham, Mr. Pence, Mr. Jones of North Carolina, Mr. Weller, Mr.
Gibbons, Mr. Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida, Mr. King of Iowa, Mr.
Duncan, Mr. Pitts, Mr. Herger, Mr. Thornberry, Mr. Hostettler, Mr.
Toomey, Mr. Garrett of New Jersey, Mr. Kingston, Mr. Norwood, Mr.
Terry, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mr. McKeon, Mr. Ose, Mr. Manzullo, Mr.
Osborne, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Shadegg, Mr. Wamp, Mr. Rehberg, Mr.
Radanovich, Mr. Pearce, Mr. Weldon of Florida, Mr. LaHood, Mr. Mario
Diaz-Balart of Florida, Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida, Mr.
Ballenger, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Hoekstra, Mr. Forbes, Mr. Tauzin, Mr. Paul,
Mr. Issa, Mr. Ramstad, Mrs. Musgrave, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Otter, Mr.
Crenshaw, Mr. Walden of Oregon, and Mr. Shimkus) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial
Services
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A BILL
To provide for dime coins to bear the likeness of President Ronald
Reagan, the Freedom President, in honor of his work in restoring
American greatness and bringing freedom to captive nations around the
world.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Ronald Reagan Dime Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds as follows:
(1) President Ronald Wilson Reagan, through his efforts as
the 40th President of the United States, created policies that
renewed economic growth, strengthened the resolve of the free
world together to oppose totalitarianism, and restored pride in
the United States.
(2) In 1981, when Ronald Reagan was inaugurated President,
he inherited a disillusioned nation wracked by rampant
inflation and high unemployment.
(3) The policies of President Reagan brought about the
beginnings of an economic boom that lasted almost unimpeded
through the end of the 20th century.
(4) President Reagan was victorious in 49 of the 50 states
in the 1984 general election, a record unsurpassed in the
history of United States presidential elections.
(5) President Reagan, through his simple republican dignity
and sense of personal responsibility to the United States of
America, brought pride and honor to the Office of the
President.
(6) President Reagan worked in a bipartisan manner to enact
his agenda of restoring accountability and common sense to
government, which led to an unprecedented economic expansion
and opportunity for millions of Americans.
(7) President Reagan's commitment to an active social
policy agenda for the nation's children helped lower crime in
our neighborhoods.
(8) President Reagan led a national crusade against illegal
narcotics, which resulted in a substantial decline in illegal
drug use in the United States during his eight years in office.
(9) President Reagan wrote ``Abortion and the Conscience of
a Nation'' for the 10th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which
stated ``Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive
as a free land when some men could decide that others were not
fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we
cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that
others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion
or infanticide . . . there is no cause more important for
preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right
to life of all human beings, the right without which no other
rights have any meaning''.
(10) President Reagan's commitment to our armed forces
contributed to the restoration of pride in America, her
principles of ordered liberty, and the heritage of Western
Civilization.
(11) President Reagan's unshakeable commitment to freedom
strengthened America's mission to proclaim liberty throughout
the world and led to the collapse of global Communism, the fall
of the Iron Curtain, and the toppling of the Berlin Wall,
giving millions of people across the globe formerly shackled by
the Soviets opportunity to live in peace and freedom.
(12) President Reagan marked the beginning of his
Presidency by recalling with shame ``the series of historical
tragedies--beginning with the broken promises of the Yalta
Conference--that led to the denial of the most elementary forms
of personal freedom and human dignity to millions in Eastern
Europe and Asia''.
(13) President Reagan brought courage to those people cut
off from others who lived in freedom, reminding them that
``Until the people of the Baltic States and Eastern Europe are
free to choose their own system of government, we will continue
to speak up for their rights and champion their cause''.
(14) President Reagan called the world's attention to the
plight of captive nations tyrannized behind the Iron Curtain,
from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, which
included millions of Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Poles,
Germans, Czechs, Slovaks, Romanians, Bulgarians, Albanians,
Croats, Serbs, Bosnians, and others, reminding us that ``Free
people, if they are to remain free, must defend the liberty of
others''.
(15) President Reagan made a promise to ``all in Eastern
Europe who are separated from neighbors and loved ones by an
ugly Iron Curtain. And to every person trapped in tyranny,
whether in the Ukraine, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Cuba or
Vietnam, we send our love and support, and tell them they are
not alone. Your struggle is our struggle, your dream is our
dream, and someday, you, too, will be free''.
(16) President Reagan boldly stood at the Brandenburg Gate
in West Berlin, on June 12, 1987, declaring: ``General
Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity
for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek
liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open
this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!''.
(17) President Reagan's vision of ``peace through
strength'' brought the United States victory in the Cold War
and freed millions of people from Soviet tyranny.
(18) President Reagan once summarized the mission of his
administration as ``Being free and prosperous in a world at
peace. That's our ultimate goal.''.
(19) President Reagan reminded his countrymen of our
calling in world history: ``I don't believe the people I've met
in almost every State of this Union are ready to consign this,
the last island of freedom, to the dust bin of history, along
with the bones of dead civilizations of the past. Call it
mysticism, if you will, but I believe God had a divine purpose
in placing this land between the two great oceans to be found
by those who had a special love of freedom and the courage to
leave the countries of their birth. From our forefathers to our
modern-day immigrants, we've come from every corner of the
earth, from every race and every ethnic background, and we've
become a new breed in the world. We're Americans and we have a
rendezvous with destiny.''.
SEC. 3. OBVERSE OF DIME COIN TO BEAR LIKENESS OF RONALD REAGAN.
Section 5112(d)(1) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by
inserting after the 4th sentence the following new sentence: ``Dime
coins issued after such date as the Secretary determines to be
appropriate shall bear the likeness of President Ronald Reagan, the
Freedom President, in honor of his work in restoring American greatness
and bringing freedom to captive nations around the world.''.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
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