The document says “shall”Who acts: Speaker of the House of Representatives, President pro tempore of the SenateHow: statuteSec. 3 in the PDF
What the document says
“The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements for the award, on behalf of Congress, of 3 gold medals of appropriate design to the members of the 1980 United States Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team”
Subsection (a) is the operative provision of the Act. It directs the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange the award, on behalf of Congress, of three gold medals to the members of the 1980 team. The subsection states the recognition in the same words the Act's long title uses: the team's achievement at the XIII Olympic Winter Games, where amateur collegiate players defeated the Soviet team in the Miracle on Ice, revitalizing morale at the height of the Cold War, inspiring generations and transforming the sport.
What the document actually says
“The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements for the award, on behalf of Congress, of 3 gold medals of appropriate design to the members of the 1980 United States Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team”
That sentence, in plain words
Two leaders of Congress must set up the award. Three gold medals go to the 1980 team.
What this is about
One leader runs the House. The other runs the Senate when the Vice President is away. The medals come from Congress, not from them.
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The document says “shall”Who acts: Secretary of the TreasuryHow: statuteSec. 3 in the PDF
What the document says
“the Secretary of the Treasury (referred to in this Act as the ``Secretary'') shall strike gold medals with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined by the Secretary.”
Subsection (b) directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike the medals, and leaves their emblems, devices and inscriptions to the Secretary to determine. The subsection is also where the Act defines the short term "Secretary" that sections 4 and 6 then use.
What the document actually says
“the Secretary of the Treasury (referred to in this Act as the ``Secretary'') shall strike gold medals with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined by the Secretary.”
That sentence, in plain words
The head of the Treasury must make the gold medals. That person picks the pictures, the shapes and the words on them.
What this is about
To strike a medal is to stamp the metal. The law does not say what goes on the medals. It leaves that choice to the Treasury.
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The document says “shall”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 3 in the PDF
What the document says
“one gold medal shall be given to the Lake Placid Olympic Center in Lake Placid, New York, where it shall be displayed and made available for research, as appropriate”
The first of the three directions in subsection (c), which govern what happens after the award. One medal goes to the Lake Placid Olympic Center in Lake Placid, New York, the place the first finding names as the site of the games. The subsection attaches two conditions to the gift, in the same words for each of the three: the medal is to be displayed, and made available for research, as appropriate. The subsection does not name who is to give the medals, only that it happens following the award.
What the document actually says
“one gold medal shall be given to the Lake Placid Olympic Center in Lake Placid, New York, where it shall be displayed and made available for research, as appropriate”
That sentence, in plain words
One gold medal goes to the Lake Placid Olympic Center. It is in Lake Placid, New York. The center must put it on show.
What this is about
The center must also let people study it. That is what the law means by research. Lake Placid is where the 1980 games were played.
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The document says “shall”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 3 in the PDF
What the document says
“one gold medal shall be given to the United States Hockey Hall of Fame Museum in Eveleth, Minnesota, where it shall be displayed and made available for research, as appropriate”
The second of the three directions in subsection (c). One medal goes to the United States Hockey Hall of Fame Museum in Eveleth, Minnesota, on the same two conditions as the first: displayed, and made available for research, as appropriate. Eveleth is the hometown the third finding gives for one of the twenty players, Mark Pavelich.
What the document actually says
“one gold medal shall be given to the United States Hockey Hall of Fame Museum in Eveleth, Minnesota, where it shall be displayed and made available for research, as appropriate”
That sentence, in plain words
One gold medal goes to the hockey hall of fame museum. It is in Eveleth, Minnesota. The museum must put it on show.
What this is about
The museum must also let people study it. The law lists Eveleth as one player's home town. That player is Mark Pavelich.
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The document says “shall”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 3 in the PDF
What the document says
“one gold medal shall be given to the United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where it shall be displayed and made available for research, as appropriate”
The third and last of the directions in subsection (c). One medal goes to the United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on the same two conditions as the other two: displayed, and made available for research, as appropriate. With this, all three medals are accounted for and none is given to a member of the team.
What the document actually says
“one gold medal shall be given to the United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where it shall be displayed and made available for research, as appropriate”
That sentence, in plain words
One gold medal goes to the Olympic and Paralympic Museum. That museum is in Colorado Springs. It must put the medal on show. It must also let people study it.
What this is about
That is the last of the three medals. Each one goes to a museum. No medal goes to a player or to a family.
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Each thing the section directs: who arranges the award, how many medals there are and who they honor, who strikes them and who chooses their design, and the three places each medal goes to afterward.
The repetition of the team's full name and of the recognition language, which the section prints once in subsection (a) and is recorded once here. The approval line and the legislative history the Government Publishing Office prints after the last section are held out of the indexed text.
The section creates the award itself and amends no older statute, so nothing recorded here depends on a law that is not indexed. The section sets no deadline for striking or awarding the medals, and names no sum of money; section 6 is where the cost is charged. No medal is given to any player: all three go to institutions.
