[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2416 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2416

To designate the Federal building located at 2201 C Street, Northwest, 
   in the District of Columbia, which serves as headquarters for the 
   Department of State, as the ``Harry S. Truman Federal Building''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 13, 2000

 Mr. Ashcroft (for himself, Mr. Bond, Mr. DeWine, Mr. Warner, and Mr. 
   Moynihan) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To designate the Federal building located at 2201 C Street, Northwest, 
   in the District of Columbia, which serves as headquarters for the 
   Department of State, as the ``Harry S. Truman Federal Building''.

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

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) President Harry S. Truman worked to establish the 
        Marshall Plan, which created politically stable partners in 
        Europe, spurred world economic growth, stabilized European 
        currencies, and encouraged global trade;
            (2) Truman worked very closely with the Senate in writing 
        the Washington Treaty, which founded the North Atlantic Treaty 
        Organization in 1949;
            (3) Truman's foreign policy leadership in troubled times, 
        such as the periods of the Soviet blockade in Berlin which 
        necessitated the Berlin airlift, the communist coup in 
        Czechoslovakia, and the communist insurgency in Greece, made it 
        clear that the United States needed to do its part to help the 
        free countries of Europe protect themselves;
            (4) the United States troop presence and guarantee of 
        military assistance allowed many allies to concentrate on 
        building economic growth and political stability, with minimal 
        fear of attack by the Soviet Union;
            (5) Truman was the architect of the strategy that won the 
        Cold War; and
            (6) Truman's courage, character, and commitment to freedom 
        were second to none.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF HARRY S. TRUMAN FEDERAL BUILDING.

    The Federal building located at 2201 C Street, Northwest, in the 
District of Columbia, which serves as headquarters for the Department 
of State, shall be known and designated as the ``Harry S. Truman 
Federal Building''.

SEC. 3. REFERENCES.

    Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other 
record of the United States to the Federal building referred to in 
section 2 shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``Harry S. Truman 
Federal Building''.
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