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Version 82 · Passed Senate without amendment · Jan 15, 2009
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Directs the Administrator of General Services to ensure that the federally occupied building located at McKinley Avenue and Third Street, S.W., Canton, Ohio, is known and designated as the "Ralph Regula Federal Office Building and Courthouse."
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Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] · D–OH
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For further action see P.L. 111-74 (H.R. 1687).
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Received in the House.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S630; text as passed Senate: CR S630)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S630; text as passed Senate: CR S630)
Introduced in Senate
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