I 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3665
To award congressional gold medals to former President Jimmy Carter and 
his wife Rosalynn Carter in recognition of their outstanding service 
to the United States and to the world. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 8, 2003
Mr. BISHOP of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To award congressional gold medals to former President 
Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter in recogni-
tion of their outstanding service to the United States 
and to the world.
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 finds the following: 
(1) President Jimmy Carter and his wife, First 
Lady Rosalynn Carter, epitomize the best qualities 
in American service, volunteerism, and statesman-
ship, through their life work in Plains, Georgia, and
throughout the world. Since leaving the White 
House, the Carters have redefined the role of ex-
President to help broker peace and fight disease 
worldwide. 
(2) President and Mrs. Carter have selflessly 
distinguished themselves as exemplary public serv-
ants, both in the United States and throughout the 
world. 
(3) Jimmy Carter, born James Earl Carter, Jr. 
in 1924, attended Georgia Southwestern College and 
the Georgia Institute of Technology and received his 
B.S. degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946. 
He then served the United States from 1946 until 
1953, including service on the battleship USS 
Pomfret in the Pacific and on the nuclear submarine 
Sea Wolf. 
(4) Later, Mr. Carter did graduate work in nu-
clear physics at Union College. 
(5) After his service in the Navy, Mr. Carter re-
turned to Plains and became a successful business-
man and farmer. 
(6) In Plains, Mr. Carter dedicated himself to 
local public service as Chairman of the Sumter 
County School Board, Chairman of the County Hos-
pital Authority, President of the Plains Development
President’s Commission on Mental Health. She also 
served as the President’s personal emissary to Latin 
American countries. 
(12) President Carter’s domestic accomplish-
ments included a long-term program designed to 
solve the mounting energy shortfalls, including a 
limit on imported oil, gradual price decontrol on do-
mestically produced oil, a stringent program of con-
servation, and development of alternative sources of 
energy such as solar, nuclear, and geothermal power, 
oil and gas from shale and coal, and synthetic fuels; 
an overhaul of the civil-service system; creation of 
new Departments of Education and Energy; deregu-
lation of the airlines to stimulate competition and 
lower fares; and environmental efforts that included 
passage of a law preserving vast wilderness areas of 
Alaska. 
(13) President Carter’s foreign policy achieve-
ments included negotiating the Panama Canal trea-
ties; the historic Camp David Accords between 
Israeli Premier Menahem Begin and Egyptian Presi-
dent Anwar el-Sadat, which provided the foundation 
for a settlement of the Middle East dispute that had 
eluded peacemakers for more than three decades; the 
SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union; and the es-
tablishment of diplomatic relations with the People’s 
Republic of China. 
(14) After serving as President and First Lady 
of the United States, President and Mrs. Carter 
built the Carter Center in Atlanta, a nonprofit orga-
nization promoting international peace, human 
rights, conflict resolution, democracy and economic 
development and the fight against poverty, hunger 
and disease in some 65 countries throughout the 
world, and particularly in developing countries. Mrs. 
Carter currently serves as Vice Chair of the Carter 
Center, where she leads a program to diminish stig-
ma against mental illness and to promote greater ac-
cess to mental health care. 
(15) Since 1982, President and Mrs. Carter 
have been active volunteers and serve on the Inter-
national Board of Advisors of the Habitat for Hu-
manity, a nonprofit organization that helps needy 
people in the United States and in some 44 other 
countries renovate and build homes for themselves. 
Since its founding in 1976, Habitat for Humanity 
has built over 30,000 homes. 
(16) In December 2002, President Carter re-
ceived the Nobel Peace Prize for his ‘‘decades of 
untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to inter-
national conflicts, to advance democracy and human 
rights, and to promote economic and social develop-
ment’’. 
(17) President Carter currently teaches Sunday 
school and is a deacon in the Maranatha Baptist 
Church of Plains. He is a distinguished professor 
and lecturer at Emory University. 
SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDALS. 
(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 gold 
medals of appropriate design to former President Jimmy 
Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter, in recognition of 
their life work and service to the United States. 
(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 gold medals with suitable em-
blems, devices, and inscriptions, to be determined by the 
Secretary. 
SEC. 3. DUPLICATE MEDALS. 
Under such regulations as the Secretary may pre-
scribe, the Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in 
bronze of the gold medals struck pursuant to section 2
at a price sufficient to cover the costs of the bronze medals 
(including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and 
overhead expenses) and the cost of the gold medals. 
SEC. 4. NATIONAL MEDALS. 
The medals struck under this Act are national medals 
for purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code. 
SEC. 5. FUNDING AND PROCEEDS OF SALE. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—There is authorized to be 
charged against the United States Mint Public Enterprise 
Fund such amounts as may be necessary, not to exceed 
$60,000, to pay for the cost of the medals struck pursuant 
to this Act. 
(b) PROCEEDS OF SALE.—Amounts received from the 
sale of duplicate bronze medals under section 3 shall be 
deposited in the United States Mint Public Enterprise 
Fund.
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