IIB 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4286 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
DECEMBER 18, 2007 
Received 
JANUARY 22 (legislative day, JANUARY 3), 2008 
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 
Affairs 
AN ACT 
To award a congressional gold medal to Daw Aung San 
Suu Kyi in recognition of her courageous and unwavering 
commitment to peace, nonviolence, human rights, and 
democracy in Burma. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows: 
(1) Aung San Suu Kyi was born on June 19, 
1945, in Rangoon, Burma, to Aung San, commander 
of the Burma Independence Army, and Ma Khin 
Kyi. 
(2) On August 15, 1988, Ms. Suu Kyi, in her 
first political action, sent an open letter to the mili-
tary controlled government asking for free, open, 
and multi-party elections. 
(3) On September 24, 1988, the National 
League for Democracy (NLD) was formed, with Ms. 
Suu Kyi as the general-secretary, and it was, and re-
mains, dedicated to a policy of non-violence and civil 
disobedience. 
(4) Ms. Suu Kyi was subsequently placed under 
house arrest, where she remained for the next 6 
years—without being charged or put on trial—and 
has been imprisoned twice more; she currently re-
mains under house arrest. 
(5) Despite her detention, the National League 
for Democracy won an open election with an over-
whelming 82 percent of the vote—which the military 
junta nullified. 
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(6) While under house arrest, she has bravely 
refused offers to leave the country to continue to 
promote freedom and democracy in Burma. 
(7) For her efforts on behalf of the Burmese 
people, she has been awarded the Sakharov Prize for 
Freedom of Thought in 1990, the Presidential 
Medal of Freedom in 2000, and the Nobel Peace 
Prize in 1991. 
(8) Ms. Suu Kyi continues to fight on behalf of 
the Burmese people, even donating her $1.3 million 
from her Nobel Prize to establish a health and edu-
cation fund for Burma. 
(9) She is the world’s only imprisoned Nobel 
Peace Prize recipient, spending more than 12 of the 
past 17 years under house arrest. 
(10) Despite an assassination attempt against 
her life, her prolonged illegal imprisonment, the con-
stant public vilification of her character, and her in-
ability to see her children or to see her husband be-
fore his death, Ms. Suu Kyi remains committed to 
peaceful dialogue with her captors, Burma’s military 
regime, and Burma’s ethnic nationalities towards 
bringing democracy, human rights, and national rec-
onciliation to Burma. 
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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 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi 
in recognition of her courageous and unwavering commit-
ment to peace, nonviolence, human rights, and democracy 
in Burma. 
(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, 
devices, and inscriptions to be determined by the Sec-
retary. 
SEC. 3. DUPLICATE MEDALS. 
The Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in 
bronze of the gold medal struck pursuant to section 2 
under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, at 
a price sufficient to cover the cost thereof, including labor, 
materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses, 
and the cost of the gold medal. 
SEC. 4. STATUS OF MEDALS. 
(a) NATIONAL MEDALS.—The medals struck pursu-
ant to this Act are national medals for purposes of chapter 
51 of title 31, United States Code. 
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(b) NUMISMATIC ITEMS.—For purposes of sections 
5134 and 5136 of title 31, United States Code, all medals 
struck under this Act shall be considered to be numismatic 
items. 
SEC. 5. AUTHORITY TO USE FUND AMOUNTS; PROCEEDS OF 
SALE. 
(a) AUTHORITY TO USE FUND AMOUNTS.—There is 
authorized to be charged against the United States Mint 
Public Enterprise Fund such amounts as may be nec-
essary to pay for the costs of the medals struck pursuant 
to this Act. 
(b) PROCEEDS OF SALE.—Amounts received from the 
sale of duplicate bronze medals authorized under section 
3 shall be deposited into the United States Mint Public 
Enterprise Fund. 
Passed the House of Representatives December 17, 
2007. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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