[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 11 (Thursday, February 12, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S746]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. WELLSTONE (for himself and Mr. Grams):
  S. 1640. A bill to designate the building of the United States Postal 
Service located at East Kellogg Boulevard in Saint Paul, Minnesota, as 
the ``Eugene J. McCarthy Post Office Building''; to the Committee on 
Governmental Affairs.


  THE EUGENE J. McCARTHY POST OFFICE BUILDING DESIGNATION ACT OF 1998

  Mr. WELLSTONE. Mr. President, I rise today on behalf of myself and my 
colleague from Minnesota, Senator Grams, to introduce legislation which 
would designate the U.S. Post Office Building in downtown St. Paul, MN, 
as the ``Eugene J. McCarthy Post Office Building.'' In doing so, we 
join the entire Minnesota delegation in the U.S. House of 
Representatives in honoring a man who is of great importance to our 
state and our nation.
  This building, which will bear the name of one of Minnesota's great 
statesmen, stands in Minnesota's capitol, a city represented by Senator 
McCarthy in the House and Senate for nearly a quarter of a century. 
When the 4th district, and later all of Minnesota, sent Senator 
McCarthy to Washington they sent a scholar as well as a legislator, and 
his service to our state and this nation has not been restricted to his 
tenure in Congress. He has touched lives as a teacher and author as 
well.
  Mr. President, I am proud to know Eugene McCarthy and to follow in 
his footsteps as a Senator from Minnesota, as a progressive, and as a 
great believer in grassroots democracy. He is a person who not only 
articulated, but exercised, a politics of inclusion and who knows that 
a candidate's success is best built upon a foundation of individuals. 
While America has had many important leaders, very few have fought the 
battles Senator McCarthy has fought, very few have shown the commitment 
he has shown to effecting positive change for ordinary people, and very 
few can match his record as a man of peace.
  Mr. President, it is an honor to extend my state's, and my country's, 
gratitude to Senator McCarthy with this designation.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be printed in 
the Record.
  There being no objection, the bill was ordered to be printed in the 
Record, as follows:

                                S. 1640

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

     SECTION 1. DESIGNATION.

       (a) In General.--The building of the United States Postal 
     Service located at 180 East Kellogg Boulevard in Saint Paul, 
     Minnesota, shall be known and designated as the ``Eugene J. 
     McCarthy Post Office Building''.
       (b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, 
     document, paper, or other record of the United States to the 
     building referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be 
     a reference to the ``Eugene J. McCarthy Post Office 
     Building''.
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