Captain Robert E. ``bob'' Batterson Post Office

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Mr. COMER. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 10065) to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 802 North Tancahua Street in Corpus Christi, Texas, as the ``Captain Robert E. `Bob' Batterson Post Office''.

The Clerk read the title of the bill.

The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 10065

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. CAPTAIN ROBERT E. ``BOB'' BATTERSON POST OFFICE.

(a) Designation.--The facility of the United States Postal Service located at 802 North Tancahua Street in Corpus Christi, Texas, shall be known and designated as the ``Captain Robert E. `Bob' Batterson Post Office''.

(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 ``Captain Robert E. `Bob' Batterson Post Office''.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this bill, which would rename a post office located in Texas to honor Captain Robert E. Batterson.

Captain Batterson served in the U.S. Navy for 35 years and was stationed at Pearl Harbor during the 1941 attack.

In retirement, he spent 26 years as a volunteer at the Pearl Harbor exhibit in the USS Lexington Museum in Corpus Christi.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support the naming of a post office in honor of Captain Batterson, and I reserve the balance of my time.
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Mr. COMER. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate and agree with hopefully the next ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, and there are two bills we are talking about, including the one for Mr. Mfume, that didn't meet those requirements.

Hopefully, that will not ever happen again in the future, but I will make that point again to the new speaker on the other side of the aisle.

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

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Mr. COMER. Mr. Speaker, I might add they have nowhere to go but up in the ranking member category on that side of the aisle, and I appreciate my friend from New York City.

Mr. Speaker, I encourage everyone to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

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