Jack Lew nears decision to keep Hamilton on front of $10 bill, put a woman on the $20

CNN ^ | April 16, 2016 | Kevin Liptak and Antoine Sanfuentes

[PROCON]

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is expected to announce this week that Alexander Hamilton's face will remain on the front of the $10 bill and a woman will replace Andrew Jackson on the face of the $20 bill, a senior government source told CNN on Saturday.

Lew announced last summer that he was considering redesigning the $10 bill to include the portrait of a woman. The decision to make the historic change at the expense of Hamilton drew angry rebukes from fans of the former Treasury Secretary. The pro-Hamilton movement gained steam after the smash success of the hip-hop Broadway musical about his life this year.

Those pressures led Lew to determine that Hamilton should remain on the front of the bill. Instead, a mural-style depiction of the women's suffrage movement -- including images of leaders such as Susan B. Anthony -- will be featured on the back of the bill.

[PROCON]

Isn't it great that our gubmint is taking care of the real, important American business?

ISIS may be a threat to us, but at least our currency is going to show diversity!

[DIRTYSECRET]

Amazing. In your face. Wouldn’t it be nice to see what the people think?

[heights]

Marilyn Monroe?

[TexasTransplant]

I’m surprised that Obama isn’t on every Bill and Coin.
(with a wookie on the backside)

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Harriet Tubman or Janet Rogers Brown would be fine with me.

Educational, too.

[Mears]

I guarantee a black woman will be the choice.

Black Lived Matter. :-)

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[Salvation]

No woman on any bill.......PLLLLEEASE.

[CrazyIvan]

Grace Hopper.

[Publius]

Nicole Beharie from “Sleepy Hollow.”

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Janice Rogers Brown not Janet...

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

In some of my more satisfying daydreams, I imagine a low level government employee swapping some engraving plates and printing out millions of $20 bills with Kim Davis’ picture on them. The reaction from the Left would be priceless.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

All they care about is changing every single thing you ever thought was constant or that you were used to. For better or for worse, that doesn’t matter. Just change it.

[Graybeard58]

What difference does it make at this point?

It’s all over F.R. that cash will soon be eliminated.

[MtnClimber]

Put Hillary on the $0.

[RightGeek]

Just put Hillary on a $3 bill and stop messing with real currency.

[digger48]

If they put a woman on the $10, will it then be worth only $7.80?

[bgill]

I’m so happy DC has nothing more to concern themselves with than fixing what isn’t broken. We all can rest peaceful tonight.

How many $10s and $20s is this going to cost the tax payer?

[Paradox]

Not crazy about HAVING to change to a woman’s face, but if there is a face to replace, that would be Andrew Jackson’s.

[Roccus]

Grace Hopper.

Great as she was, Jean Kirkpatrick would be my choice.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

So the hip-hop show about Hamilton is keeping his mug on the ten? Someone needs to get to work on an Andy Jackson show. I already have the title: Old Hip-Hop Hickory.