Elizabeth Furse Post Office Building

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Mr. LANGWORTHY. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 9549) to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 125 South 1st Avenue in Hillsboro, Oregon, as the ``Elizabeth Furse Post Office Building''.

The Clerk read the title of the bill.

The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 9549

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. ELIZABETH FURSE POST OFFICE BUILDING.

(a) Designation.--The facility of the United States Postal Service located at 125 South 1st Avenue in Hillsboro, Oregon, shall be known and designated as the ``Elizabeth Furse 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 ``Elizabeth Furse Post Office Building''.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this bill which would rename a post office in Oregon after Elizabeth Furse. Ms. Furse was the first woman to be elected to Oregon's First District and the first African-born person to win a seat in the House of Representatives from Oregon.

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 encourage all of my colleagues to honor Elizabeth Furse by supporting this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

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