IV 111th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 1306 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 28, 2010 Ms. Norton submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that a postage stamp should be issued to honor the lives of Joseph Curseen, Jr. and Thomas Morris, Jr., the two United States Postal Service workers and District of Columbia natives who died as a result of their contact with anthrax while working at the United States Postal Service facility located at 900 Brentwood Road, NE, Washington, DC, during the anthrax attack in the fall of 2001.

Whereas Joseph Curseen, Jr. and Thomas Morris, Jr. served honorably and diligently in the United States Postal Service for a combined period of 52 years; Whereas in the fall of 2001, during the course of their jobs with the United States Postal Service, Joseph Curseen, Jr. and Thomas Morris, Jr. were exposed to letters containing anthrax that were placed in the mail and subsequently suffered from the inhalation of anthrax and thereafter died; Whereas 5 individuals in the United States died from exposure to anthrax during the 2001 anthrax attack; Whereas in 2002, the United States Postal Service facility located at 900 Brentwood Road, NE, Washington, DC, was designated as the Joseph Curseen, Jr. and Thomas Morris, Jr. Processing and Distribution Center by Public Law 107–225, introduced by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and passed unanimously by Congress; and Whereas issuing a postage stamp to honor the sacrifices of these two Federal workers is proper and fitting: Now, therefore, be it

That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that— (1)a postage stamp should be issued to honor Joseph Curseen, Jr. and Thomas Morris, Jr., the postal workers who died in the line of duty during the anthrax attack in the fall of 2001; and (2)the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee should recommend to the Postmaster General that such a stamp be issued.