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108TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3633

To provide for dime coins to bear the likeness of President Ronald Reagan, 

the Freedom President, in honor of his work in restoring American 

greatness and bringing freedom to captive nations around the world. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

NOVEMBER 21, 2003

Mr. SOUDER (for himself, Mr. HASTERT, Mr. DELAY, Mr. BLUNT, Mr. CANTOR, Mr. COX, Mr. DREIER, Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. DEMINT, Mr. KING of 

New York, Ms. DUNN, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. CRANE, Mr. WILSON

of South Carolina, Mrs. JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia, Mr. CARTER, Mr. 

GOODE, Mr. LINDER, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. GALLEGLY, Mr. DOOLITTLE, Mr. POMBO, Mr. HUNTER, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. AKIN, 

Mr. FEENEY, Mr. BUYER, Mr. TIAHRT, Mr. BRADY of Texas, Mr. 

CHOCOLA, Mr. CULBERSON, Mr. BURGESS, Mr. CUNNINGHAM, Mr. 

PENCE, Mr. JONES of North Carolina, Mr. WELLER, Mr. GIBBONS, Mr. 

LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida, Mr. KING of Iowa, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. 

PITTS, Mr. HERGER, Mr. THORNBERRY, Mr. HOSTETTLER, Mr. 

TOOMEY, Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey, Mr. KINGSTON, Mr. NORWOOD, 

Mr. TERRY, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, Mr. MCKEON, Mr. OSE, Mr. MANZULLO, Mr. OSBORNE, Mr. BOOZMAN, Mr. SHADEGG, Mr. WAMP, Mr. 

REHBERG, Mr. RADANOVICH, Mr. PEARCE, Mr. WELDON of Florida, Mr. 

LAHOOD, Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Florida, Ms. GINNY BROWNWAITE of Florida, Mr. BALLENGER, Mr. THOMAS, Mr. HOEKSTRA, Mr. 

FORBES, Mr. TAUZIN, Mr. PAUL, Mr. ISSA, Mr. RAMSTAD, Mrs. 

MUSGRAVE, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. OTTER, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. WALDEN

of Oregon, and Mr. SHIMKUS) introduced the following bill; which was 

referred to the Committee on Financial Services 

A BILL

To provide for dime coins to bear the likeness of President 

Ronald Reagan, the Freedom President, in honor of his 
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work in restoring American greatness and bringing freedom to captive nations around the world.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Ronald Reagan Dime 

5 Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 The Congress finds as follows: 

8 (1) President Ronald Wilson Reagan, through 

9 his efforts as the 40th President of the United 

10 States, created policies that renewed economic 

11 growth, strengthened the resolve of the free world 

12 together to oppose totalitarianism, and restored 

13 pride in the United States. 

14 (2) In 1981, when Ronald Reagan was inaugu15 rated President, he inherited a disillusioned nation 

16 wracked by rampant inflation and high unemploy17 ment. 

18 (3) The policies of President Reagan brought 

19 about the beginnings of an economic boom that 

20 lasted almost unimpeded through the end of the 

21 20th century. 

22 (4) President Reagan was victorious in 49 of 

23 the 50 states in the 1984 general election, a record 
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1 unsurpassed in the history of United States presi2 dential elections. 

3 (5) President Reagan, through his simple re4 publican dignity and sense of personal responsibility 

5 to the United States of America, brought pride and 

6 honor to the Office of the President. 

7 (6) President Reagan worked in a bipartisan 

8 manner to enact his agenda of restoring account9 ability and common sense to government, which led 

10 to an unprecedented economic expansion and oppor11 tunity for millions of Americans. 

12 (7) President Reagan’s commitment to an ac13 tive social policy agenda for the nation’s children 

14 helped lower crime in our neighborhoods. 

15 (8) President Reagan led a national crusade 

16 against illegal narcotics, which resulted in a substan17 tial decline in illegal drug use in the United States 

18 during his eight years in office. 

19 (9) President Reagan wrote ‘‘Abortion and the 

20 Conscience of a Nation’’ for the 10th Anniversary of 

21 Roe v. Wade, which stated ‘‘Abraham Lincoln recog22 nized that we could not survive as a free land when 

23 some men could decide that others were not fit to 

24 be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we 

25 cannot survive as a free nation when some men de-
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1 cide that others are not fit to live and should be 

2 abandoned to abortion or infanticide . . . there is no 

3 cause more important for preserving that freedom 

4 than affirming the transcendent right to life of all 

5 human beings, the right without which no other 

6 rights have any meaning’’. 

7 (10) President Reagan’s commitment to our 

8 armed forces contributed to the restoration of pride

9 in America, her principles of ordered liberty, and the 

10 heritage of Western Civilization. 

11 (11) President Reagan’s unshakeable commit12 ment to freedom strengthened America’s mission to 

13 proclaim liberty throughout the world and led to the 

14 collapse of global Communism, the fall of the Iron 

15 Curtain, and the toppling of the Berlin Wall, giving 

16 millions of people across the globe formerly shackled 

17 by the Soviets opportunity to live in peace and free18 dom. 

19 (12) President Reagan marked the beginning of 

20 his Presidency by recalling with shame ‘‘the series of 

21 historical tragedies—beginning with the broken 

22 promises of the Yalta Conference—that led to the 

23 denial of the most elementary forms of personal 

24 freedom and human dignity to millions in Eastern 

25 Europe and Asia’’. 
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1 (13) President Reagan brought courage to 

2 those people cut off from others who lived in free3 dom, reminding them that ‘‘Until the people of the 

4 Baltic States and Eastern Europe are free to choose 

5 their own system of government, we will continue to 

6 speak up for their rights and champion their cause’’. 

7 (14) President Reagan called the world’s atten8 tion to the plight of captive nations tyrannized be9 hind the Iron Curtain, from Stettin in the Baltic to 

10 Trieste in the Adriatic, which included millions of 

11 Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Poles, Germans, 

12 Czechs, Slovaks, Romanians, Bulgarians, Albanians, 

13 Croats, Serbs, Bosnians, and others, reminding us 

14 that ‘‘Free people, if they are to remain free, must 

15 defend the liberty of others’’. 

16 (15) President Reagan made a promise to ‘‘all 

17 in Eastern Europe who are separated from neigh18 bors and loved ones by an ugly Iron Curtain. And 

19 to every person trapped in tyranny, whether in the 

20 Ukraine, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Cuba or Viet21 nam, we send our love and support, and tell them 

22 they are not alone. Your struggle is our struggle, 

23 your dream is our dream, and someday, you, too, 

24 will be free’’. 
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1 (16) President Reagan boldly stood at the 

2 Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, on June 12, 

3 1987, declaring: ‘‘General Secretary Gorbachev, if 

4 you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet 

5 Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberaliza6 tion: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open 

7 this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’’. 

8 (17) President Reagan’s vision of ‘‘peace 

9 through strength’’ brought the United States victory 

10 in the Cold War and freed millions of people from 

11 Soviet tyranny. 

12 (18) President Reagan once summarized the 

13 mission of his administration as ‘‘Being free and 

14 prosperous in a world at peace. That’s our ultimate 

15 goal.’’. 

16 (19) President Reagan reminded his country17 men of our calling in world history: ‘‘I don’t believe 

18 the people I’ve met in almost every State of this 

19 Union are ready to consign this, the last island of 

20 freedom, to the dust bin of history, along with the 

21 bones of dead civilizations of the past. Call it mys22 ticism, if you will, but I believe God had a divine 

23 purpose in placing this land between the two great 

24 oceans to be found by those who had a special love 

25 of freedom and the courage to leave the countries of 
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1 their birth. From our forefathers to our modern-day 

2 immigrants, we’ve come from every corner of the 

3 earth, from every race and every ethnic background, 

4 and we’ve become a new breed in the world. We’re 

5 Americans and we have a rendezvous with destiny.’’. 

6 SEC. 3. OBVERSE OF DIME COIN TO BEAR LIKENESS OF 

7 RONALD REAGAN. 

8 Section 5112(d)(1) of title 31, United States Code, 

9 is amended by inserting after the 4th sentence the fol10 lowing new sentence: ‘‘Dime coins issued after such date 

11 as the Secretary determines to be appropriate shall bear 

12 the likeness of President Ronald Reagan, the Freedom 

13 President, in honor of his work in restoring American 

14 greatness and bringing freedom to captive nations around 

15 the world.’’.

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