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1. Issue Spotlight: The Olympics

   by rachna on August 6, 2012

   8/12/12: Two bills were recently introduced after we initially published this Issue Spotlight: HR 6359 and HR 6287.

   As millions of Americans watch the Olympics and cheer on Team USA, Congress too has been considering the Olympics in its policymaking. Check out these bills, and share this list with your friends and networks. (If you're on Twitter, it's #olympics)

   Issue Spotlight: The Olympics

   • HR 6359 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income any prizes or awards won in competition in the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
   • HR 6287 To amend the tax code to exclude from gross income any prizes or awards won in competition in the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
   • HR 6267 The Olympic Tax Elimination Act: To amend the tax code to eliminate the tax on Olympic medals won by United States athletes (and S 3471.)
   • HR 6252 To amend the tax code to exclude from gross income any prizes or awards won in competition in the Olympic Games.
   • HR 6250 To amend the tax code to exclude from gross income any prizes or awards won in competition in the Olympic Games.
   • S 2287 The Team USA Made in America Act: A bill to amend title 36, United States Code, to require the United States Olympic Committee to adopt a policy that requires ceremonial uniforms purchased or otherwise obtained by the Committee to be produced in the United States.
   • HRes 663 Expressing support for the International Olympic Committee to recognize with a minute of silence at every future Olympics Opening Ceremony those who lost their lives at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and for other purposes.
   • SRes 487 A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the ambush marketing adversely affects Team USA and the Olympic and Paralympic Movements and should not be condoned.

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