Overview
- The House approved by voice vote a Semiquincentennial Congressional Time Capsule and a separate bill to authorize a $2.50 commemorative coin.
- The time-capsule measure, already passed by the Senate, now goes to President Trump and directs burial at the Capitol Visitor Center to be opened on July 4, 2276.
- The capsule’s guidelines call for items capturing Congress’s institutional history, including a leadership letter, books, manuscripts, relics and memorabilia, assembled with the Architect of the Capitol.
- The coin legislation, led by Rep. Robert Aderholt, instructs Treasury to mint a collectible $2.50 piece by July 4 using an updated version of the 1926 sesquicentennial design.
- The coin bill also orders a Treasury study on the economic feasibility of issuing a $2.50 denomination for everyday circulation; the measure now awaits Senate action.