United States Representative Elijah E. Cummings Post Office Building

Floor Speech

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Mr. LANGWORTHY. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 9544) to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 340 South Loudon Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland, as the ``United States Representative Elijah E. Cummings Post Office Building''.

The Clerk read the title of the bill.

The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 9544

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS POST OFFICE BUILDING.

(a) Designation.--The facility of the United States Postal Service located at 340 South Loudon Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland, shall be known and designated as the ``United States Representative Elijah E. Cummings 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 ``United States Representative Elijah E. Cummings Post Office Building''.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this bill, which would rename a post office in Baltimore after Congressman Elijah Cummings.

Congressman Cummings was born in Baltimore on January 18, 1951, and was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1982. In 1996, Mr. Cummings was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and later served as the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to support this bill, and I reserve the balance of my time.

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Mr. LANGWORTHY. Mr. Speaker, I support this legislation to honor Congressman Elijah Cummings. It has been wonderful to hear so many great stories of his time here in these hallowed Halls. I yield back the balance of my time.

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