[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 150 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                               S. RES. 150

To express the sense of the Senate that if a new $1 coin is minted, the 
Secretary of the Treasury should be authorized to mint and circulate $1 
           coins bearing a likeness of Margaret Chase Smith.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 9, 1997

Ms. Snowe submitted the following resolution, which was referred to the 
            Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
To express the sense of the Senate that if a new $1 coin is minted, the 
Secretary of the Treasury should be authorized to mint and circulate $1 
           coins bearing a likeness of Margaret Chase Smith.

Whereas in 1940, Margaret Chase Smith became a Member of the House of 
        Representatives, commencing 32 years of public service to the State of 
        Maine and to the United States:
Whereas Margaret Chase Smith was elected to the Senate in 1948, becoming the 
        first woman to be elected to the Senate, as well as the first woman to 
        be elected to both the House of Representatives and the Senate;
Whereas on June 1, 1950, Margaret Chase Smith delivered an address entitled 
        ``Declaration of Conscience'', which was a defense of the basic 
        principles of Americanism, including the right to criticize, the right 
        to hold unpopular beliefs, the right to protest, and the right to 
        independent thought;
Whereas Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman to become the ranking member of 
        a congressional committee;
Whereas Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman to serve on the Committee on 
        Armed Services and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate;
Whereas in 1964, Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman to have her name 
        placed in nomination for the presidency by either major political party;
Whereas Margaret Chase Smith was the first civilian woman to sail on a United 
        States destroyer during wartime;
Whereas Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman to break the sound barrier in a 
        United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre;
Whereas until 1981, Margaret Chase Smith held the all-time consecutive rollcall 
        voting record of the Senate, totalling 2,941 votes over 13 years;
Whereas Margaret Chase Smith died at the age of 97, and, during her lifetime, 
        was given 95 honorary degrees and was awarded the Presidential Medal of 
        Freedom by President Bush in 1989;
Whereas Margaret Chase Smith was a teacher, a telephone operator, a 
        newspaperwoman, an office manager, a secretary, a wife, a Congresswoman, 
        and a Senator;
Whereas Margaret Chase Smith was a leader, a Nation's conscience, a visionary, 
        and a woman of endless firsts;
Whereas the achievements of Margaret Chase Smith are an inspiration to millions 
        of young girls and women, showing that through the use of one's talents, 
        abilities, and energies that opportunities for women do exist and that 
        the door to elected office can be open to all women; and
Whereas Margaret Chase Smith served with pride and humility, and her epitaph 
        aptly reads, ``She served people.'';
Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that if a new $1 coin is 
minted, the Secretary of the Treasury should be authorized to mint and 
circulate $1 coins bearing a likeness of Margaret Chase Smith.
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