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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1149, member: 112&quot;]The Secretary of the Treasury has full statutory authority to change any coin design that is more than 25 years old. However - no SecTres in recent history has ever done this without first consulting Congress &amp;amp; the President. It seems they are afraid of stepping on too many political toes. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sec. Paul O&#039;Neil stated before his resignation, &quot;I can&#039;t imagine my telling people we&#039;re not interested in their opinions.&nbsp; I don&#039;t expect to exercise my statutory authority without consulting with the appropriate people.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;They tell me I can change all the currency as well with my own discretion,&quot; O&#039;Neill says, &quot;but I think I am not inclined to take such actions without careful consultation with the Congress. The Congress has an important role to play, I think, in making the decisions of this kind that so many people care about. I can&#039;t imagine that we would make a unilateral decision without consultation.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In the same sense, while the secretary of the Treasury under the law has certain authorities, I can&#039;t imagine making a unilateral decision without talking to the president and getting his views on it as well.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Now since O&#039;Neil is no longer in office it is possible that this may not happen. But it is highly unlikely that a new SecTres would take such a step - changing the coin designs - without first doing exactly what O&#039;Neil intended to do. </p><p><br /></p><p>For that reason it is important the people of this nation make their opinions known to all who may play a part in this which includes the Congress, the President, the new Sec. Tres., the Director of the Mint and so on. After all - they ALL work for us. And they will listen to what the people want as long as the people express their opinions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again - examine the web page more carefully. It is designed to allow visitors to directly contact ALL interested parties and provides contact information in order to do this. These parties include The President &amp;amp; Vice President, any or all of the members of Congress; the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing &amp;amp; Urban Affairs; the House Committee on Financial Services; any or all of the above&#039;s sub-committees; and all of the individual members of these committees and sub-committees, and the Director of the Mint, Henrietta Fore.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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