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104TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION S. 1520

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

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

JANUARY 23, 1996

Mr. HELMS (for himself, Mr. FAIRCLOTH, Mr. HATCH, Mr. SIMPSON, Mr.

WARNER, Mr. MURKOWSKI, Mrs. HUTCHISON, Mrs. KASSEBAUM, Mr.

ABRAHAM, Mr. SPECTER, Mr. KYL, Mr. NICKLES, Mr. SHELBY, Mr.

CRAIG, Mr. BURNS, Mr. HATFIELD, Mr. HEFLIN, Mr. SANTORUM, Mr.

LOTT, Mr. ASHCROFT, Mr. KEMPTHORNE, Mr. COCHRAN, and Mr.

FRIST) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred

to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

A BILL

To award a congressional gold medal to Ruth and Billy

Graham.

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

3 SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

4 The Congress hereby finds the following:

5 (1) Ruth and Billy Graham have made out6 standing and lasting contributions to morality, racial

7 equality, family, philanthropy, and religion.
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1 (2) America’s most respected and admired

2 evangelical leader for the past half century, Billy

3 Graham’s crusades have reached 100,000,000 people

4 in person and reached over 2,000,000,000 people

5 worldwide on television.

6 (3) Billy Graham, throughout his 77 years of

7 life and his 52-year marriage to Ruth Graham, has

8 exemplified the highest ideals of teaching, counsel9 ing, ethics, charity, faith, and family.

10 (4) Billy Graham’s daily newspaper column and

11 14 books have provided spiritual counseling and per12 sonal enrichment to millions of people.

13 (5) Ruth and Billy Graham have been the driv14 ing force to create the Ruth and Billy Graham Chil15 dren’s Health Center at Memorial Mission Hospital

16 in Asheville, North Carolina, whose vision it is to im17 prove the health and well-being of children and to

18 become a new resource for ending the pain and suf19 fering of children.

20 SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL.

21 (a) PRESENTATION AUTHORIZED.—The Speaker of

22 the House of Representatives and the President pro tem23 pore of the Senate are authorized to present, on behalf

24 of the Congress, to Billy and Ruth Graham a gold medal

25 of appropriate design, in recognition of their outstanding
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1 and enduring contributions toward faith, morality, and

2 charity.

3 (b) DESIGN AND STRIKING.—For purposes of the

4 presentation referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary

5 of the Treasury shall strike a gold medal with suitable em6 blems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined by the

7 Secretary.

8 (c) GIFTS AND DONATIONS.—

9 (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Treas10 ury may accept, use, and disburse gifts or donations

11 of property or money to carry out this section.

12 (2) NO APPROPRIATION AUTHORIZED.—No

13 amount is authorized to be appropriated to carry out

14 this section.

15 SEC. 3. DUPLICATE MEDALS.

16 The Secretary of the Treasury may strike and sell

17 duplicates in bronze of the gold medal struck pursuant

18 to section 2 under such regulations as the Secretary may

19 prescribe, at a price sufficient to cover the cost thereof,

20 including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and

21 overhead expenses, and the cost of the gold medal.

22 SEC. 4. STATUS OF MEDALS.

23 (a) NATIONAL MEDALS.—The medals struck pursu24 ant to this Act are national medals for purposes of chapter

25 51 of title 31, United States Code.
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1 (b) NUMISMATIC ITEMS.—For purposes of section

2 5134 of title 31, United States Code, all medals struck

3 under this Act shall be considered to be numismatic items.

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