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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Feb 27, 2025
This bill designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 28 East Airy Street in Norristown, Pennsylvania, as the "Charles L. Blockson Post Office Building".
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Rep. Dean, Madeleine [D-PA-4] · D–PA
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Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-02-27 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
The bill would name the United States Postal Service facility at 28 East Airy Street in Norristown, Pennsylvania, the Charles L. Blockson Post Office Building.
The facility of the United States Postal Service located at 28 East Airy Street in Norristown, Pennsylvania, shall be known and designated as the Charles L. Blockson Post Office Building.
References to this facility in federal laws, maps, regulations and other federal records would be treated as references to the Charles L. Blockson Post Office Building.
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 Charles L. Blockson Post Office Building.
The supplied December 8, 2025 source snapshot records that the bill was introduced in the House and referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on February 27, 2025.
Source snapshot updated 2025-12-08T15:30:18Z. 2025-02-27: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. 2025-02-27: Introduced in House
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