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108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3263
To award a congressional gold medal to Lord Robertson of Port Ellen. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 8, 2003
Mr. BEREUTER (for himself, Mr. TANNER, Mr. GILLMOR, and Mr. HEFLEY) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Fi-
nancial Services 
A BILL 
To award a congressional gold medal to Lord Robertson 
of Port Ellen.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
The Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) In 1999, George Robertson was chosen by 
the 19 member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty 
Organization to become Secretary General of the Al-
liance. 
(2) During his 4 years as Secretary General, 
Lord Robertson has been one of NATO’s finest sec-
retaries general, helping to shift the Alliance from a 
static force, designed only to counter the Soviet 
threat to Europe, to one that is able to deploy capa-
bly to meet current threats. 
(3) Lord Robertson has been a great ally of the 
United States, often defending American interests, 
and he has played an exceptional role in maintaining 
a strong relationship between the United States and 
its European and Canadian allies. 
(4) On September 12, 2001, one day after the 
terrorist attacks against New York City and Wash-
ington, D.C., Lord Robertson proposed that the 
North Atlantic Council invoke Article 5 of the Wash-
ington Treaty, declaring that the attacks against the 
United States constituted an attack on the entire 
North Atlantic Alliance. 
(5) In response to the invocation of Article 5, 
nearly all of the NATO allies sent troops to Afghani-
stan to depose the Taliban regime or to stabilize the 
country, and the Alliance sent its own AWACS air-
craft to patrol the skies over the United States. 
(6) Under Lord Robertson’s stewardship, the 
North Atlantic Alliance has transformed itself so as 
to remain the cornerstone of transatlantic coopera-
tion and Euro-Atlantic security, which remain in the 
national interest of the United States. 
(7) Lord Robertson will step down as Secretary 
General of NATO at the end of 2003. 
(8) Lord Robertson plans to make his final visit 
to the United States as Secretary General from No-
vember 10 to 12, 2003, in order to address the 49th 
Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assem-
bly in Orlando, Florida, as well as to meet in Wash-
ington, D.C., with the President, the Secretary of 
State, and the Secretary of Defense. 
SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL. 
(a) PRESENTATION AUTHORIZED.—The Speaker of 
the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tem-
pore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements 
for the presentation, on behalf of the Congress, of a gold 
medal of appropriate design, to Lord Robertson of Port 
Ellen in recognition of his outstanding and enduring con-
tributions to maintaining the security of the Euro-Atlantic 
region. 
(b) DESIGN AND STRIKING.—For purposes of the 
presentation referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary 
of the Treasury (referred to in this Act as the ‘‘Sec-
retary’’) shall strike a gold medal with suitable emblems,
3 shall be deposited into the United States Mint Public 
Enterprise Fund.
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