[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5472 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5472

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service currently 
   located at 16281 U.S. Highway 59 in Moscow, Texas, as the ``Anna 
            Stepanovna Politkovskaya Memorial Post Office''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 15, 2014

 Mr. Stockman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service currently 
   located at 16281 U.S. Highway 59 in Moscow, Texas, as the ``Anna 
            Stepanovna Politkovskaya Memorial Post Office''.

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

SECTION 1. ANNA STEPANOVNA POLITKOVSKAYA MEMORIAL POST OFFICE.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds as follows:
            (1) Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya, an American citizen of 
        Russian extraction, was a Russian-American journalist who 
        exposed numerous human rights violations committed by the 
        Russian military in Chechnya, and was a harsh critic of 
        Vladimir Putin.
            (2) In 2001, while investigating complaints of torture in 
        the Chechen town of Khattuni, she was detained and beaten by 
        Russian military officials.
            (3) In 2004, she published the book Putin's Russia, which 
        exposed many harsh police state tactics of the Putin regime.
            (4) In September 2004, she became severely ill after an 
        assassination attempt using poisoned tea.
            (5) In 2006, she was shot to death in her apartment in 
        Moscow, Russia.
    (b) Designation.--The facility of the United States Postal Service 
currently located at 16281 U.S. Highway 59 in Moscow, Texas, shall 
hereafter be known as the ``Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya Memorial Post 
Office''.
    (c) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, 
paper, or other record of the United States to the facility referenced 
in subsection (b) shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``Anna 
Stepanovna Politkovskaya Memorial Post Office''.
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