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108th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1017
To authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the
Congress to Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. in recognition of his outstanding and
enduring contributions to the Nation.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 27, 2003
Mr. Rangel introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Financial Services
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A BILL
To authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the
Congress to Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. in recognition of his outstanding and
enduring contributions to the Nation.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. FINDINGS.
The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. was born on October 8, 1941,
in Greenville, South Carolina.
(2) In 1965 Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. joined the civil rights
movement full-time, beginning his activism as a student leader
in the sit-in movement and continuing as a young organizer for
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as an assistant to
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(3) On June 30, 1968, Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. became an
ordained minister, having attended the Chicago Theological
Seminary.
(4) Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. served as the national director
for Operation Breadbasket and, in 1971 in Chicago, Illinois,
founded People United to Save Humanity, known as PUSH.
(5) In 1984 Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. founded the National
Rainbow Coalition, a national social justice organization
devoted to political empowerment and to expanding educational
and employment opportunities for disadvantaged people and for
communities of color.
(6) In 1996 Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. merged the National
Rainbow Coalition and PUSH to continue the philosophies of both
organizations and to maximize their resources.
(7) Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. is, and has been for more than 30
years, one of the foremost political figures in the United
States, playing a pivotal role in virtually every movement for
human rights, civil rights, peace, gender equality,
empowerment, and economic and social justice.
(8) Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. has been and continues to be
counted on to serve as a champion and spokesman for a segment
of the population whose voices all too often are not heard.
(9) Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. has been called the ``conscience
of the Nation'' and the ``great unifier'', challenging the
United States to establish just and humane priorities.
(10) Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. has led a myriad of successful
delegations, marches, and missions for justice, peace, and
reconciliation.
(11) Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. is a highly respected world
leader who has acted on many occasions as an international
diplomat.
(12) In 1984 Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. secured the release of a
captured Navy pilot, Lieutenant Robert Goodman, who was shot
down over Lebanon. He also negotiated the release of 22
Americans and 26 Cubans in Cuba during 1984.
(13) In 1990 Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. won the release of
hundreds of foreign nationals, including 47 Americans, being
held in Iraq and Kuwait by Saddam Hussein.
(14) In October 1997 Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. was appointed by
President William Jefferson Clinton and by Secretary of State
Madeleine K. Albright as the Special Envoy of the President and
the Secretary of State for the Promotion of Democracy in
Africa.
(15) On May 2, 1999, Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. obtained the
negotiated release of Army Specialist Steven M. Gonzales and
Staff Sergeants Christopher J. Stone and Andrew Ramirez, 3
United States soldiers who had spent 32 days in captivity in
Yugoslavia as prisoners of war and hostages.
(16) Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. has dedicated his life to the
principles of freedom, peace, justice, international good will,
and the struggle for civil rights and equality for Americans
and for all peoples, at home and abroad.
SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL.
(a) Presentation Authorized.--The President is authorized to
present, on behalf of the Congress, a gold medal of appropriate design
to Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. in recognition of his outstanding and enduring
contributions to the Nation.
(b) Design and Striking.--For the purpose of the presentation
referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary of the Treasury shall
strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions,
to be determined by the Secretary.
(c) Authorization of Appropriation.--Effective February 1, 2001,
there are authorized to be appropriated $30,000 to carry out this
section.
SEC. 3. DUPLICATE MEDALS.
(a) Striking and Sale.--The Secretary of the Treasury may strike
and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold medal struck under 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.
(b) Reimbursement of Appropriation.--The appropriation used to
carry out section 2 shall be reimbursed out of the proceeds of sales
under subsection (a).
SEC. 4. NATIONAL MEDALS.
The medals struck under this Act are national medals for purposes
of chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code.
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