Lance Corporal David Lee Espinoza, Lance Corporal Juan Rodrigo Rodriguez Sergeant Roberto Arizola Jr. Post Office Building

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Mr. DONALDS. Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 2754) to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2395 East Del Mar Boulevard in Laredo, Texas, as the ``Lance Corporal David Lee Espinoza, Lance Corporal Juan Rodrigo Rodriguez & Sergeant Roberto Arizola Jr. Post Office Building''.

The Clerk read the title of the bill.

The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 2754

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. LANCE CORPORAL DAVID LEE ESPINOZA, LANCE CORPORAL JUAN RODRIGO RODRIGUEZ & SERGEANT ROBERTO ARIZOLA JR. POST OFFICE BUILDING.

(a) Designation.--The facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2395 East Del Mar Boulevard in Laredo, Texas, shall be known and designated as the ``Lance Corporal David Lee Espinoza, Lance Corporal Juan Rodrigo Rodriguez & Sergeant Roberto Arizola Jr. Post Office Building''.

(b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the facility referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``Lance Corporal David Lee Espinoza, Lance Corporal Juan Rodrigo Rodriguez & Sergeant Roberto Arizola Jr. Post Office Building''.
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Mr. DONALDS. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Madam Speaker, I rise in support of this bill, which would name the post office in Laredo, Texas, after David Lee Espinoza, Lance Corporal Juan Rodrigo Rodriguez, and Sergeant Roberto Arizola, Jr.

Lance Corporal Espinoza joined the Marine Corps after graduating high school in 2019. He was one of the 13 servicemembers killed in a suicide bombing during the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. He was just 20 years old.

Lance Corporal Rodriguez served in the Marine Forces Reserve after graduating from high school in the year 2000. In 2005, at the age of 23, he died conducting combat operations in Anbar Province, Iraq.

Sergeant Roberto Arizola, Jr., served in the U.S. Army and was deployed to Iraq in May of 2004. In June of that year, one day before he was set to return home, he was killed in an explosion in Baghdad. Sergeant Arizola also served as a Border Patrol agent in Laredo, Texas, before being deployed to Iraq.

Lance Corporal David Lee Espinoza, Lance Corporal Juan Rodrigo Rodriguez, and Sergeant Roberto Arizola, Jr., all died while serving our great Nation.

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Mr. DONALDS. Madam Speaker, I have no further speakers, and I reserve the balance of my time.

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Mr. DONALDS. Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this bipartisan bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.
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