[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3941 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3941

 To designate the United States courthouse located at 500 Pearl Street 
     in New York City, New York, as the ``Ted Weiss United States 
                             Courthouse''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 1, 1996

  Mr. Nadler introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To designate the United States courthouse located at 500 Pearl Street 
     in New York City, New York, as the ``Ted Weiss United States 
                             Courthouse''.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Ted Weiss represented the 17th Congressional District 
        of New York, serving in the House of Representatives from 
        January 1977 until his death on September 14, 1992. During that 
        time, he provided exemplary service to the people of his 
        district and to the people of the United States.
            (2) Having been born on September 17, 1927, in Hungary, and 
        having come to the United States with his mother and sister in 
        1938 on the very day Hitler marched into Czechoslovakia, Ted 
        Weiss became an ardent champion for human rights, which were 
        denied to many of those who remained behind.
            (3) After emigrating to the United States, Ted Weiss served 
        in the United States Army. He later earned a bachelor's degree 
        and a law degree from Syracuse University and, subsequently, 
        served in the City Council of New York City from 1961 until 
        1976, when he was elected to the House of Representatives.
            (4) Ted Weiss was among the first to focus the Nation's 
        attention on the need to increase funding for AIDS research, 
        before the word ``epidemic'' dominated these discussions.
            (5) Ted Weiss urged the use of Federal funds to address the 
        devastating impact of homelessness on communities across the 
        Nation.
            (6) As Chairman of the Congressional Arts Caucus, Ted Weiss 
        emphasized the role of both major arts and cultural 
        institutions and community-based arts programs.
            (7) The congressional legislative agenda of Ted Weiss 
        reflected, in addition to his vigilant support for human 
        rights, his commitment to peace and his quest to ensure 
        fairness and justice for all.

SEC.2. DESIGNATION.

    The Federal building located at 500 Pearl Street in New York City, 
New York, shall be known and designated as the ``Ted Weiss United 
States Courthouse''.

SEC. 3. REFERENCES.

    Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other 
record of the United States to the United States courthouse referred to 
in section 2 shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``Ted Weiss 
United States Courthouse''.
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