Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Post Office Building

Floor Speech

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of 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.

This legislation, introduced by my tremendous colleague, Representative Jennifer Wexton of Virginia, would designate a post office after former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Secretary Albright fled Communist rule under Czechoslovakia and immigrated to Denver, Colorado, in 1948. She committed herself to a life of public service, including working for the U.S. Senate under then-Senator Edmund Muskie, and later served the Carter administration as a White House staff member and a staffer of the National Security Council.

Secretary Albright was appointed by President Clinton as Ambassador to the United Nations in 1993 and was a critical force behind the expansion of NATO ``to build, for the very first time, a peaceful, democratic, and undivided transatlantic community.'' She was committed to the democratization and security of European nations that escaped Soviet rule.

Secretary Albright is remembered as an important force behind the global fight against climate change, including by supporting the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty to fight global climate change. This protocol was eventually adopted in 1997.

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Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I urge Members to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

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