The House of Representatives has passed legislation to move "In God We Trust" from the edge of the Presidential dollar to the obverse or reverse. The Senate has not yet acted.

maybe they can tack this on to the American Indian Sackie reverse bill. It also means they would have to redesign the edge lettering, spread it out?

That SUX!!!!!! If there going to do that why dont they just take in all the copper pennies and replace the with New ones. Big profit in exchange.

Move this to the debates.
It's gonna get ugly real fast!!

I'm not sure I fully understand the significance of this bill. Can anyone give a good summary? Preferably unbiased.

Basically they want to move the legends that are currently on the edges of the coins, well, most of the coins anyway, to the obverse or reverse instead because the legends were left off some of the edges of the coins. The result was torment from the religious "right" about the lack of "In God We Trust" etc.

Frankly IMHO they could just stop making this trash in the first place. The coins are all ugly in my opin.

Lots of people complained that they couldn't read it on the edge and it was the first step in the total removal of "God" from our coinage.

Which is a ludicrous notion, but considering the people doing the griping, not a surprise.

Priorities, people! There are those who really need to sort those out... but lets not get into a political debate.

Whaddaya mean? You mean soldiers dying everyday in Iraq, billions of dollars of taxpayers money going into that sinkhole, crime, global warming, disease, hunger? Those are all more important? How can that possibly be?

yeah. ignore him. he's just toying with us i think

In the larger scheme of things the motto is not that important but looking at it from a coins only standpoint Congress is the entity that makes these rules. Perhaps they should pass this "burden" on to some other entity so they can spend their time on more important items.

In a perfect world...

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

HR 2510 IH


110th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 2510
To amend title 31, United States Code, to require the inscription `In God We Trust' to appear on a face of the $1 coins honoring each of the Presidents of the United States.


IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES


May 24, 2007
A BILL
To amend title 31, United States Code, to require the inscription `In God We Trust' to appear on a face of the $1 coins honoring each of the Presidents of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,


SECTION 1. INSCRIPTION MOVED FROM EDGE TO FACE OF COIN.

(a) In General- Section 5112(n)(2) of title 31, United States Code, is amended--

(1) in subparagraph ©(i)--

(A) by striking `inscriptions' and inserting `inscription'; and

(B.) by striking `and `In God We Trust'; and

(2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:

`(F) INSCRIPTION OF `IN GOD WE TRUST'- The design on the obverse or the reverse shall bear the inscription `In God We Trust'.'.

(B.) Effective Date- The change required by the amendments made by subsection (a) shall be put into effect by the Secretary of the Treasury as soon as is practicable after the date of the enactment of this Act.


Nothing from the senate yet.

think they should let the collectors decide and think the senate/congress/presdent are all lazy people and for now on they shouldnt get paid i think they should just get a small amout of money and it should be like jury dutie which would save alot of campaigning money..

HR 2510 is not the bill the house passed. They added an amendment to HR2829 appropriations bill and the wording could derail the President dollar program. Its up to the Senate to clarify the wording.

HR2829
SEC. 907. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to implement section 5112(n)(2)© of title 31, United States Code.


5112 of title 31
‘‘© EDGE-INCUSED INSCRIPTIONS.—

‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The inscription of the year of

minting or issuance of the coin and the inscriptions

‘E Pluribus Unum’ and ‘In God We Trust’ shall be

edge-incused into the coin.

So it's staying put?

So far.
Senate still needs to act.