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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3015129, member: 66&quot;]Congress WILL do things, as long as they are not involved with things they SHOULD be doing.&nbsp; &quot;Sorry but we have to postpone the budget debates in order to&nbsp; declare National Fig Newton Day.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>As for your proposal, it would probably be more likely to pass if it was to recognize the centennial&nbsp; of the peace treaty ending WWI, and requiring the use of the peace dollar design for silver dollar commemorative coins.&nbsp; After all that was what the Peace dollar was commemorating in 1921.&nbsp; (WWI did not end until Nov of 1921.&nbsp; WWI was kind of weird they declared a cease fire in 1918 and everyone went home.&nbsp; Then they worked on the peace treaties and the war didn&#039;t official end for three more years.)&nbsp; I&#039;d probably leave the Morgan out completely because I don&#039;t think it would impress the congressmen, and I&#039;m not sure they would really care about recognizing their centennial.&nbsp; And in the section where you discuss the surcharges you refer to the coins as half dollars.&nbsp; And the idea of the surcharges going to reduce the national debt isn&#039;t unique, several of the modern commemoratives have specified that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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