[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4497 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4497

     To award a congressional gold medal to Rabbi Menachem Mendel 
                              Schneerson.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 25, 1994

 Mr. Schumer (for himself, Mr. Gingrich, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, and Mr. 
Lewis of California) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
         to the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
     To award a congressional gold medal to Rabbi Menachem Mendel 
                              Schneerson.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    The Congress hereby finds the following:
            (1) Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the leader of the 
        Lubavitch movement for 40 years, has made outstanding and 
        lasting contributions toward improvements in world education, 
        morality, and acts of charity.
            (2) Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, as a refugee first 
        from Stalinist Russia and then from Nazi Germany, has made the 
        headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in New York City 
        a center of over 2,000 educational, social, and rehabilitative 
        institutions touching millions of people from all walks of life 
        in every corner of the globe.
            (3) Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, throughout his 92 
        years of life, has exemplified the highest ideals of 
        scholarship, teaching, ethics, and charity.
            (4) Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson has interpreted with 
        keen insight the miraculous events of our time and has inspired 
        people to a renewal of individual values of spirituality, 
        cooperation, and love of learning.
            (5) Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson's extraordinary life 
        and work have long been recognized by the Congress through the 
        enactment of joint resolutions designating his birthday in each 
        of the last 16 years as ``Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A.''.

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL.

    (a) Presentation Authorized.--The President is authorized to 
present, on behalf of the Congress, to the Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi 
Menachem Mendel Schneerson, a gold medal of appropriate design, in 
recognition of his outstanding and enduring contributions toward world 
education, morality, and acts of charity.
    (b) Design and Striking.--For purposes of the presentation referred 
to in subsection (a), the Secretary of the Treasury shall strike a gold 
medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions reflecting the 
theme of education to be determined by the Secretary.
    (c) Gifts or Donations.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall 
        accept, use, and disburse gifts or donations of property or 
        money to carry out this section.
            (2) No appropriation authorized.--No amount is authorized 
        to be appropriated to carry out this section.

SEC. 3. DUPLICATE MEDALS.

    The Secretary of the Treasury may strike and sell duplicates in 
bronze of the gold medal struck pursuant to section 1 under such 
regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, at a price sufficient to 
cover the cost thereof, including labor, materials, dies, use of 
machinery, and overhead expenses, and the cost of the gold medal.

SEC. 4. NATIONAL MEDALS.

    The medals struck pursuant to this Act are national medals for 
purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code.

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