[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2657 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2657

     To award a congressional gold medal to Ruth and Billy Graham.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 17, 1995

Mr. Taylor of North Carolina (for himself, Mr. Allard, Mr. Archer, Mr. 
Armey, Mr. Bachus, Mr. Baker of California, Mr. Baker of Louisiana, Mr. 
 Ballenger, Mr. Barcia, Mr. Barr of Georgia, Mr. Barrett of Nebraska, 
   Mr. Barrett of Wisconsin, Mr. Bartlett of Maryland, Mr. Barton of 
 Texas, Mr. Bass, Mr. Bereuter, Mr. Bevill, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Bliley, 
  Mr. Blute, Mr. Boehlert, Mr. Boehner, Mr. Bonilla, Mr. Bonior, Mr. 
Bono, Mr. Brewster, Mr. Brownback, Mr. Bryant of Tennessee, Mr. Bunn of 
  Oregon, Mr. Burr, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. Buyer, Mr. Chabot, Mr. 
Callahan, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Camp, Mr. Canady of Florida, Mr. Castle, Mr. 
Chambliss, Mrs. Chenoweth, Mr. Christensen, Mr. Chrysler, Mr. Clinger, 
Mr. Coble, Mr. Coleman, Mr. Collins of Georgia, Mr. Condit, Mr. Cooley, 
   Mr. Cox of California, Mr. Crapo, Mrs. Cubin, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. 
 Davis, Mr. Deal of Georgia, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. DeLay, Mr. Dellums, Mr. 
Dickey, Mr. Dixon, Mr. Dreier, Mr. Duncan, Ms. Dunn of Washington, Mr. 
  Edwards, Mr. Emerson, Mr. English of Pennsylvania, Mr. Ensign, Mr. 
 Everett, Mr. Farr of California, Mr. Fawell, Mr. Fields of Texas, Mr. 
Forbes, Mrs. Fowler, Mr. Fox of Pennsylvania, Mr. Franks of New Jersey, 
Mr. Frelinghuysen, Mr. Frisa, Mr. Funderburk, Mr. Gallegly, Mr. Ganske, 
 Mr. Pete Geren of Texas, Mr. Gilchrest, Mr. Gilman, Mr. Gingrich, Mr. 
     Goodlatte, Mr. Goss, Mr. Graham, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, Mr. 
Greenwood, Mr. Gunderson, Mr. Gutknecht, Mr. Hall of Texas, Mr. Hansen, 
 Mr. Hastert, Mr. Hastings of Washington, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Hayworth, Mr. 
Hefley, Mr. Hefner, Mr. Heineman, Mr. Herger, Mr. Hilleary, Mr. Hobson, 
 Mr. Hoekstra, Mr. Hoke, Mr. Houghton, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Hyde, Mr. Inglis 
of South Carolina, Mr. Jacobs, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. Jones, Mr. 
Kennedy of Massachusetts, Mr. King, Mr. Kingston, Mr. Knollenberg, Mr. 
Kolbe, Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. Largent, Mr. Laughlin, Mr. Lazio of New York, 
Mr. Leach, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Lewis of Kentucky, Mr. Lightfoot, 
 Mr. Linder, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Longley, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Manzullo, Mr. 
    McCollum, Mr. McDade, Mr. McHugh, Mr. McIntosh, Mr. McKeon, Mr. 
 McNulty, Mr. Metcalf, Mrs. Meyers of Kansas, Mr. Mica, Mr. Miller of 
  Florida, Mr. Minge, Ms. Molinari, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Moorhead, Mr. 
Moran, Mrs. Morella, Mrs. Myrick, Mr. Nethercutt, Mr. Neumann, Mr. Ney, 
Mr. Norwood, Mr. Olver, Mr. Oxley, Mr. Packard, Mr. Parker, Mr. Pastor, 
Mr. Paxon, Mr. Payne of Virginia, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Petri, Mr. Pombo, Mr. 
    Poshard, Ms. Pryce, Mr. Quillen, Mr. Quinn, Mr. Radanovich, Mr. 
Ramstad, Mr. Rangel, Mr. Reed, Mr. Riggs, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Roemer, Mr. 
 Rogers, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. Rose, Mr. Roth, Mrs. Roukema, Mr. Royce, 
Mr. Salmon, Mr. Sanford, Mr. Saxton, Mr. Schaefer, Mrs. Seastrand, Mr. 
   Sensenbrenner, Mr. Shadegg, Mr. Shaw, Mr. Shays, Mr. Shuster, Mr. 
Skeen, Mr. Skelton, Mrs. Smith of Washington, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, 
   Mr. Solomon, Mr. Souder, Mr. Spence, Mr. Spratt, Mr. Stearns, Mr. 
 Stenholm, Mr. Stockman, Mr. Stump, Mr. Talent, Mr. Tanner, Mr. Tate, 
Mr. Tauzin, Mr. Taylor of Mississippi, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Thornberry, Mr. 
  Tiahrt, Mr. Torkildsen, Mr. Towns, Mr. Upton, Mrs. Vucanovich, Mr. 
 Walker, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Wamp, Mr. Watt of North Carolina, Mr. Watts of 
  Oklahoma, Mr. Weldon of Pennsylvania, Mr. White, Mr. Whitfield, Mr. 
Williams, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Young of Alaska, and Mr. Zeliff) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Banking and 
                           Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
     To award a congressional gold medal to Ruth and Billy Graham.

    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) Ruth and Billy Graham have made outstanding and lasting 
        contributions to morality, racial equality, family, 
        philanthropy, and religion.
            (2) America's most respected and admired evangelical leader 
        for the past half century, Billy Graham's crusades have reached 
        100,000,000 people in person and reached over 2,000,000,000 
        people worldwide on television.
            (3) Billy Graham, throughout his 76 years of life and his 
        52-year marriage to Ruth Graham, has exemplified the highest 
        ideals of teaching, counseling, ethics, charity, faith, and 
        family.
            (4) Billy Graham's daily newspaper column and 14 books have 
        provided spiritual counseling and personal enrichment to 
        millions of people.
            (5) Ruth and Billy Graham have been the driving force to 
        create the Ruth and Billy Graham Children's Health Center at 
        Memorial Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, whose 
        vision it is to improve the health and well-being of children 
        and to become a new resource for ending the pain and suffering 
        of children.

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL.

    (a) Presentation Authorized.--The Speaker of the House of 
Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate are 
authorized to present, on behalf of the Congress, to Billy and Ruth 
Graham a gold medal of appropriate design, in recognition of their 
outstanding and enduring contributions toward faith, morality, and 
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 to be determined 
by the Secretary.
    (c) Gifts and Donations.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of the Treasury may 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 2 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. STATUS OF MEDALS.

    (a) National Medals.--The medals struck pursuant to this Act are 
national medals for purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United States 
Code.
    (b) Numismatic Items.--For purposes of section 5134 of title 31, 
United States Code, all medals struck under this Act shall be 
considered to be numismatic items.

SEC. 5. TRANSFER OF ANY PROFIT TO LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

    The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer an amount equal to the 
amount by which--
            (1) the sum of any gifts and donations received by the 
        Secretary in accordance with section 2(c)(2) and any proceeds 
        from the sale of duplicate medals under section 3, exceeds
            (2) the total amount of the costs incurred by the Secretary 
        in carrying out this Act,
from the Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund to the Library of Congress.
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