I 
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. CAN-
TOR, 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. DOO-
LITTLE, 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. MAN-
ZULLO, 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 BROWN-
WAITE 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
work in restoring American greatness and bringing free-
dom to captive nations around the world.
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 ‘‘Ronald Reagan Dime 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows: 
(1) President Ronald Wilson Reagan, through 
his efforts as the 40th President of the United 
States, created policies that renewed economic 
growth, strengthened the resolve of the free world 
together to oppose totalitarianism, and restored 
pride in the United States. 
(2) In 1981, when Ronald Reagan was inaugu-
rated President, he inherited a disillusioned nation 
wracked by rampant inflation and high unemploy-
ment. 
(3) The policies of President Reagan brought 
about the beginnings of an economic boom that 
lasted almost unimpeded through the end of the 
20th century. 
(4) President Reagan was victorious in 49 of 
the 50 states in the 1984 general election, a record
unsurpassed in the history of United States presi-
dential elections. 
(5) President Reagan, through his simple re-
publican dignity and sense of personal responsibility 
to the United States of America, brought pride and 
honor to the Office of the President. 
(6) President Reagan worked in a bipartisan 
manner to enact his agenda of restoring account-
ability and common sense to government, which led 
to an unprecedented economic expansion and oppor-
tunity for millions of Americans. 
(7) President Reagan’s commitment to an ac-
tive social policy agenda for the nation’s children 
helped lower crime in our neighborhoods. 
(8) President Reagan led a national crusade 
against illegal narcotics, which resulted in a substan-
tial decline in illegal drug use in the United States 
during his eight years in office. 
(9) President Reagan wrote ‘‘Abortion and the 
Conscience of a Nation’’ for the 10th Anniversary of 
Roe v. Wade, which stated ‘‘Abraham Lincoln recog-
nized that we could not survive as a free land when 
some men could decide that others were not fit to 
be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we 
cannot survive as a free nation when some men de-
cide that others are not fit to live and should be 
abandoned to abortion or infanticide . . . there is no 
cause more important for preserving that freedom 
than affirming the transcendent right to life of all 
human beings, the right without which no other 
rights have any meaning’’. 
(10) President Reagan’s commitment to our 
armed forces contributed to the restoration of pride
in America, her principles of ordered liberty, and the 
heritage of Western Civilization. 
(11) President Reagan’s unshakeable commit-
ment to freedom strengthened America’s mission to 
proclaim liberty throughout the world and led to the 
collapse of global Communism, the fall of the Iron 
Curtain, and the toppling of the Berlin Wall, giving 
millions of people across the globe formerly shackled 
by the Soviets opportunity to live in peace and free-
dom. 
(12) President Reagan marked the beginning of 
his Presidency by recalling with shame ‘‘the series of 
historical tragedies—beginning with the broken 
promises of the Yalta Conference—that led to the 
denial of the most elementary forms of personal 
freedom and human dignity to millions in Eastern 
Europe and Asia’’.
(13) President Reagan brought courage to 
those people cut off from others who lived in free-
dom, reminding them that ‘‘Until the people of the 
Baltic States and Eastern Europe are free to choose 
their own system of government, we will continue to 
speak up for their rights and champion their cause’’. 
(14) President Reagan called the world’s atten-
tion to the plight of captive nations tyrannized be-
hind the Iron Curtain, from Stettin in the Baltic to 
Trieste in the Adriatic, which included millions of 
Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Poles, Germans, 
Czechs, Slovaks, Romanians, Bulgarians, Albanians, 
Croats, Serbs, Bosnians, and others, reminding us 
that ‘‘Free people, if they are to remain free, must 
defend the liberty of others’’. 
(15) President Reagan made a promise to ‘‘all 
in Eastern Europe who are separated from neigh-
bors and loved ones by an ugly Iron Curtain. And 
to every person trapped in tyranny, whether in the 
Ukraine, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Cuba or Viet-
nam, we send our love and support, and tell them 
they are not alone. Your struggle is our struggle, 
your dream is our dream, and someday, you, too, 
will be free’’.
(16) President Reagan boldly stood at the 
Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, on June 12, 
1987, declaring: ‘‘General Secretary Gorbachev, if 
you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet 
Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberaliza-
tion: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open 
this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’’. 
(17) President Reagan’s vision of ‘‘peace 
through strength’’ brought the United States victory 
in the Cold War and freed millions of people from 
Soviet tyranny. 
(18) President Reagan once summarized the 
mission of his administration as ‘‘Being free and 
prosperous in a world at peace. That’s our ultimate 
goal.’’. 
(19) President Reagan reminded his country-
men of our calling in world history: ‘‘I don’t believe 
the people I’ve met in almost every State of this 
Union are ready to consign this, the last island of 
freedom, to the dust bin of history, along with the 
bones of dead civilizations of the past. Call it mys-
ticism, if you will, but I believe God had a divine 
purpose in placing this land between the two great 
oceans to be found by those who had a special love 
of freedom and the courage to leave the countries of
their birth. From our forefathers to our modern-day 
immigrants, we’ve come from every corner of the 
earth, from every race and every ethnic background, 
and we’ve become a new breed in the world. We’re 
Americans and we have a rendezvous with destiny.’’. 
SEC. 3. OBVERSE OF DIME COIN TO BEAR LIKENESS OF 
RONALD REAGAN. 
Section 5112(d)(1) of title 31, United States Code, 
is amended by inserting after the 4th sentence the fol-
lowing new sentence: ‘‘Dime coins issued after such date 
as the Secretary determines to be appropriate shall 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.’’.
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