I 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4924 
To award a congressional gold medal to Dr. Norman E. Borlaug. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 9, 2006 
Mr. LATHAM (for himself, Mr. LEACH, Mr. KING of Iowa, Mr. BOSWELL, Mr. 
NUSSLE, Mr. SABO, Mr. KENNEDY of Minnesota, Mr. PETERSON of Min-
nesota, Mr. GUTKNECHT, Mr. OBERSTAR, Mr. KLINE, and Mr. 
RAMSTAD) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To award a congressional gold medal to Dr. Norman E. 
Borlaug. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Congressional Tribute 
to Dr. Norman E. Borlaug Act of 2006’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds as follows: 
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(1) Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, was born in Iowa 
where he grew up on a family farm, and received his 
primary and secondary education. 
(2) Dr. Borlaug attended the University of 
Minnesota where he received his B.A. and Ph.D. de-
grees and was also a star NCAA wrestler. 
(3) For the past 20 years, Dr. Borlaug has 
lived in Texas where he is a member of the faculty 
of Texas A&M University. 
(4) Dr. Borlaug also serves as President of the 
Sasakawa Africa Association. 
(5) Dr. Borlaug’s accomplishments in terms of 
bringing radical change to world agriculture and up-
lifting humanity are without parallel. 
(6) In the immediate aftermath of World War 
II, Dr. Borlaug spent 20 years working in the poor-
est areas of rural Mexico. It was there that Dr. 
Borlaug made his breakthrough achievement in de-
veloping a strain of wheat that could exponentially 
increase yields while actively resisting disease. 
(7) With the active support of the governments 
involved, Dr. Borlaug’s ‘‘green revolution’’ uplifted 
hundreds of thousands of the rural poor in Mexico 
and saved hundreds of millions from famine and 
outright starvation in India and Pakistan. 
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(8) Dr. Borlaug’s approach to wheat production 
next spread throughout the Middle East. Soon there-
after his approach was adapted to rice growing, in-
creasing the number of lives Dr. Borlaug has saved 
to more than a billion people. 
(9) In 1970, Dr. Borlaug received the Nobel 
Prize, the only person working in agriculture to ever 
be so honored. Since then he has received numerous 
honors and awards including the Presidential Medal 
of Freedom, the Public Service Medal, the National 
Academy of Sciences’ highest honor, and the Rotary 
International Award for World Understanding and 
Peace. 
(10) At age 91, Dr. Borlaug continues to work 
to alleviate poverty and malnutrition. He currently 
serves as president of Sasakawa Global 2000 Africa 
Project, which seeks to extend the benefits of agri-
cultural development to the 800,000,000 people still 
mired in poverty and malnutrition in sub-Saharan 
Africa. 
(11) Dr. Borlaug continues to serve as Chair-
man of the Council of Advisors of the World Food 
Prize, an organization he created in 1986 to be the 
‘‘Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture’’ and which 
presents a $250,000 prize each October at a Cere-
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mony in Des Moines, Iowa, to the Laureate who has 
made an exceptional achievement similar to Dr. 
Borlaug’s breakthrough 40 years ago. In the almost 
20 years of its existence, the World Food Prize has 
honored Laureates from Bangladesh, India, China, 
Mexico, Denmark, Sierra Leone, Switzerland, the 
United Kingdom, and the United States. 
(12) Dr. Borlaug has saved more lives than any 
other person who has ever lived, and likely has saved 
more lives in the Islamic world than any other 
human being in history. 
(13) Due to a lifetime of work that has led to 
the saving and preservation of an untold amount of 
lives, Dr. Norman E. Borlaug is deserving of Amer-
ica’s highest civilian award: the congressional gold 
medal. 
SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL. 
(a) PRESENTATION AUTHORIZED.—The President 
Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House 
of Representatives are authorized to make appropriate ar-
rangements for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, 
of a gold medal of appropriate design, to Dr. Norman E. 
Borlaug, in recognition of his enduring contributions to 
the United States and the world. 
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(b) DESIGN AND STRIKING.—For the purpose of the 
presentation referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary 
of the Treasury (hereafter in this Act referred to as the 
‘‘Secretary’’) shall strike a gold medal with suitable em-
blems, devices, and inscriptions, to be determined by the 
Secretary. 
SEC. 4. DUPLICATE MEDALS. 
Under such regulations as the Secretary may pre-
scribe, the Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in 
bronze of the gold medal struck under section 3 at a price 
sufficient to cover the cost thereof, including labor, mate-
rials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses, and 
the cost of the gold medal. 
SEC. 5. STATUS AS NATIONAL MEDALS. 
(a) NATIONAL MEDAL.—The medal struck under this 
Act is a national medal for purposes of chapter 51 of title 
31, United States Code. 
(b) NUMISMATIC ITEMS.—For purposes of section 
5134 of title 31, United States Code, all duplicate medals 
struck under this Act shall be considered to be numismatic 
items. 
SEC. 6. AUTHORITY TO USE FUND AMOUNTS; PROCEEDS OF 
SALE. 
(a) AUTHORITY TO USE FUND AMOUNTS.—There 
are authorized to be charged against the United States 
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