[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 66 (Wednesday, May 24, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Page S4381]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. REID (for himself and Mr. Bryan):
  S. 2620. A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 2000 Vassar Street in Reno, Nevada, as the ``Barbara 
F. Vucanovich Post Office Building''; to the Committee on Governmental 
Affairs.


               barbara f. vucanovich post office building

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I rise today to introduce the Barbara F. 
Vucanovich Post Office Building Naming Act.
  As many of my colleagues know, Congresswoman Barbara Vucanovich was 
the first female elected to represent the State of Nevada in Congress. 
She was first elected in 1983 and retired in 1996, after serving in the 
House of Representatives for 14 years. In her final year, she was an 
influential member of the House Appropriations Committee and the 
Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Military Construction. Barbara and I 
came to the House together as a result of the 1982 election. We both 
represented all of Nevada; not solely Congressional Districts. Barbara 
was a fine member of Congress. I miss her.
  Mr. President, it gives me pleasure to introduce this bill to 
commemorate Barbara Vucanovich's exemplary service to the State of 
Nevada and the United States of America by renaming the main post 
office in Reno, Nevada, as the ``Barbara F. Vucanovich Post Office 
Building.'' Representatives Gibbons and Berkley introduced identical 
legislation in the House on April 4, 2000. Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn 
and former Senator Paul Laxalt join Nevada's congressional delegation 
in thanking Barbara Vucanovich for her dedicated public service.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the full text of the bill 
be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the bill was ordered to be printed in the 
Record, as follows:

                                S. 2620

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

     SECTION 1. DESIGNATION OF BARBARA F. VUCANOVICH POST OFFICE 
                   BUILDING.

       (a) Designation.--The facility of the United States Postal 
     Service located at 2000 Vassar Street in Reno, Nevada, shall 
     be known and designated as the ``Barbara F. Vucanovich Post 
     Office Building''.
       (b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, 
     document, paper, or other record of the United States to the 
     facility referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be 
     a reference to the ``Barbara F. Vucanovich Post Office 
     Building''.
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