To get legislation passed for an Apollo 11 commemorative coin

Here's part of the reference to this that I saw this posted online:


The 50th anniversary of the first moon landing is still three years away, but the opportunity for the United States Treasury to issue coins commemorating the Apollo 11 mission's half-centennial is now fleeting. A bipartisan group of five members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill in June 2015 to celebrate the moon landing's 50th anniversary in 2019 by having the U.S. Mint strike curved gold, silver and clad coins bearing the iconic image reflected in Buzz Aldrin's helmet visor, as was taken by Neil Armstrong on July 20, 1969.

In the year since the bill's introduction, the "Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act" has gained nearly 300 cosponsors — more than enough to pass if put up for a vote in the House. But on the Senate side, the situation is different.

The companion bill was introduced only three months ago and has just four cosponsors. With the Senate's scheduled recesses between now and December, there are only 43 days remaining for the act to be passed before the whole process would have to start over with the next Congress.


Only three senators have co-sponsored this bill and action must be taken to get it passed by this congress by Sept 15. I know this may be a difficult task with upcoming elections and all but I have contacted my senators and would urge those in favor of such a coin to do likewise.

 

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I hope John Glenn and Bill Nelson were senate co-sponsors?

 

I will contact mine as well.

 

I will contact mine.

 

It's certainly an event worth commemorating, and, if well done, would be the only modern curved coin in my collection. I suspect, however, that the design will be butchered and it won't turn out well.

 

Just don't go hog-wild with gold, puhleezee

 

I doubt it....

I'd contact mine, but I'm not sure there's enough selfish glory for them to bother.

 

Bill Nelson was one of the co-sponsors. I think the design idea is a good one if it's done right. I hope these guys aren't too busy fighting to get this done but I'm not optimistic but if the House can do it the Senate should be able to do it, too. I hope so.

 

Ooopsie. Glenn retired in 1999. I probably should have checked that first.

 

You just know they'll foul this up.......was going to say more but my thoughts are best left in my head.