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Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Post Office Building

Floor Speech

Date: May 6, 2024
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. LaTURNER. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 3354) to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 220 North Hatcher Avenue in Purcellville, Virginia, as the ``Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Post Office Building''.

The Clerk read the title of the bill.

The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 3354

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT POST OFFICE BUILDING.

(a) Designation.--The facility of the United States Postal Service located at 220 North Hatcher Avenue in Purcellville, Virginia, shall be known and designated as the ``Secretary of State Madeleine Albright 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 ``Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Post Office Building''.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this bill, which would name a post office in Purcellville, Virginia, for former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Secretary Albright was born in Prague in 1937 and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1948.

In 1993, President Clinton appointed her Ambassador to the United Nations, a position in which she served until her appointment as Secretary of State in 1996, the first woman to be appointed to that position and the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. Government at that time.

For 50 years, Secretary Albright resided in Loudoun County, where this post office is located.

Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to support this bill, and I reserve the balance of my time.
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Mr. LaTURNER. Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to support this bill honoring an American leader. I yield back the balance of my time.

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Mr. LaTURNER. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

The yeas and nays were ordered.

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