Today, I reintroduce a bill to give the District of Columbia and the four insular areas a privilege the 50 states achieved last year: to choose a design for the reverse side of the quarter coin in order to commemorate our history as part of the United States.
Reintroduction of a bill for D.C. and territories to choose quarter coin designs.
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