Congress honors 1980 hockey team with gold medals in three museums
S. 94 — Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act · Filed by Kevin Cramer (R-ND) · 75 cosponsors · Introduced Jan 15, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill authorizes Congress to award three Congressional Gold Medals to the 1980 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team in recognition of their historic victory over the Soviet Union. One medal goes to each of three museums (Lake Placid Olympic Center, U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in Minnesota, and the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado), and the Treasury Department may also strike and sell bronze duplicates to cover costs.
Why we flagged it
This is a straightforward Congressional Gold Medal bill honoring a deceased sports team and a historical event. It has no regulatory, appropriations, or policy-change mechanism—only authorization to strike medals and distribute them to public institutions.
What the text implies
- Bronze duplicate sales may generate modest revenue for the U.S. Mint, offsetting the cost of the gold medals and potentially creating a small net positive to the Public Enterprise Fund.
- The bill names all 20 team members individually in the findings, creating a permanent legislative record of their identities and hometowns—a form of official recognition beyond the medals themselves.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
This is a commemorative measure honoring a historically significant American achievement with broad public support (75 cosponsors). The medals go to public museums where citizens can view them, and any costs are offset by bronze duplicate sales. There is no private giveaway, no liability shield, and no hidden subsidy.
Named in the bill
1980 United States Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team, Lake Placid Olympic Center, United States Hockey Hall of Fame Museum, United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum, U.S. Mint, U.S. Mint Public Enterprise Fund, Secretary of the Treasury
Where it stands
75 cosponsors: 46 Republicans, 28 Democrats, 1 Independents.
- Jan 15, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jan 15, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
3 lobbying clients named this bill on 3 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. Those filings disclosed $200,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 2 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 61% of bills with at least one filing.
Kevin Cramer, the sponsor, reported $204,312 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- National Hockey League — $150,000 on 1 filing
- National Hockey League — $50,000 on 1 filing
- Cornerstone Government Affairs Obo National Hockey League — $0 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jan 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (5,987 characters) on May 21, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jan 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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