110 HR 3377 IH: To provide for the award of a gold medal on behalf of
U.S. House of Representatives
2007-08-03
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1.The Congress finds the following:
(1)Arnold Palmer is a
world famous golf professional, a highly-successful business executive, a
prominent advertising spokesman, a devoted husband, father, and grandfather,
and a man with a common touch that has made him one of the most popular and
accessible public figures in history.
(2)Arnold Palmer
amassed 92 championships in professional competition of national or
international stature by the end of 1993, 61 of which came on the Professional
Golf Association Tour.
(3)Arnold Palmer’s
magnetic personality and unfailing sense of kindness and thoughtfulness have
endeared him to millions throughout the world.
(4)Arnold Palmer has
been the recipient of countless honors including virtually every national award
in golf and both the Hickok Athlete of the Year and Sports Illustrated’s
Sportsman of the Year awards, and he was chosen Athlete of the Decade for the
1960s in a national Associated Press poll.
(5)Arnold Palmer has
received numerous honors outside the world of sports, including the Patriot
Award of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society and the Golden Plate award of
the American Academy of Achievement.
(6)Arnold Palmer
served his country for 3 years in the United States Coast Guard and was among
those chosen to address the Joint Session of Congress on the occasion of the
100th anniversary of the birth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(7)Arnold Palmer
served as Honorary National Chairman of the March of Dimes Birth Defects
Foundation for 20 years and played a major role in the fund-raising drive that
led to the creation of the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Women in
Orlando and the Latrobe Area Hospital Charitable Foundation in his Western
Pennsylvania hometown.
(8)Arnold Palmer
remains active in tournament golf, although he retired from competition in the
major championships on April 14, 2002, when he played the last of his 48
Masters Tournaments, where he was given an emotional standing ovation as he
finished the 18th hole.
2.
(a)The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the
President Pro Tempore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements for the
presentation, on behalf of the Congress, of a gold medal of appropriate design
to Arnold Palmer in recognition of his service to the Nation in promoting
excellence and good sportsmanship.
(b)For the purpose 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.
3.Under such regulations
as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, the Secretary may strike
duplicate medals in bronze of the gold medal struck pursuant to section 2 and
sell such duplicate medals at a price sufficient to cover the costs of the
duplicate medals (including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, overhead
expenses) and the cost of the gold medal.
4.The medals struck under
this Act are national medals for purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United
States Code.
5.
(a)There is authorized to be charged against the United
States Mint Public Enterprise Fund an amount not to exceed $30,000 to pay for
the cost of the medals authorized by this Act.
(b)Amounts received from the sale of duplicate bronze medals
under section 3 shall be deposited in the United States Mint Public Enterprise
Fund.