[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 145 (Friday, October 7, 1994)]
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 AWARDING CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL TO RABBI MENACHEM MENDEL SCHNEERSON

  Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, be discharged from further 
consideration of the bill (H.R. 4497) to award a congressional gold 
medal to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and ask unanimous consent 
for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Massachusetts?
  There was no objection.
  The Clerk read the bill, as follows:

                               H.R. 4497

       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.

  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, was read 
the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the 
table.

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