[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 134 (Tuesday, October 24, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H10566]
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                  TIM LEE CARTER POST OFFICE BUILDING

  Mr. LaTOURETTE. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the 
bill (H.R. 5144) to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 203 West Paige Street, in Tompkinsville, Kentucky, 
as the ``Tim Lee Carter Post Office Building''.
  The Clerk read as follows:

                               H.R. 5144

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

     SECTION 1. TIM LEE CARTER POST OFFICE BUILDING.

       (a) Designation.--The facility of the United States Postal 
     Service located at 203 West Paige Street, in Tompkinsville, 
     Kentucky, shall be known and designated as the ``Tim Lee 
     Carter 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 ``Tim Lee Carter Post Office Building''.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from 
Ohio (Mr. LaTourette) and the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Davis) each 
will control 20 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. LaTourette).


                             General Leave

  Mr. LaTOURETTE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
may have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their 
remarks on H.R. 5144.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Ohio?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. LaTOURETTE. Mr. Speaker I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Speaker, H.R. 5144, introduced by our colleague the gentleman 
from Kentucky (Mr. Whitfield), designates the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 203 West Paige Street in 
Tompkinsville, Kentucky, as the Tim Lee Carter Post Office Building. 
All Members of the Kentucky State delegation have supported this 
legislation.
  Representative Tim Carter was born in Tompkinsville in 1910. He 
graduated from Western Kentucky University in 1934 and earned a medical 
degree from the University of Tennessee. He spent 3\1/2\ years as a 
combat medic in World War II, was elected to the Congress and gained 
national attention as the first Republican Congressman to seek U.S. 
withdrawal from Vietnam. However, he never wavered in his support for 
the troops fighting in that theater.

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  Though he was known as a defender of President Nixon during the 
impeachment hearing of 1974, he was also allied with President 
Johnson's Great Society programs to improve our Nation's poorest 
districts, to improve schools, to improve water systems, libraries, 
airports, roads and recreation, and supported the taxes to pay for 
those programs.
  During much of his 16 years in the House, he was the only practicing 
physician to serve in the House. He said that the passage of a law that 
provided preventive medical care for poor children was his most 
important legislative achievement. He was an early advocate of national 
insurance for catastrophic illness.
  When he retired from Congress, Dr. Carter returned to the practice of 
medicine and his farm on the Cumberland River. The Honorable Dr. Carter 
died in 1987.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge passage of this bill.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I join in urging passage of H.R. 5144, which was 
introduced by the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Whitfield) on September 
7, 2000, which would name a postal facility in Tompkinsville, Kentucky, 
as the Tim Lee Carter Post Office building.
  Tim Lee Carter was born in Tompkinsville, Kentucky, in 1910. He 
graduated from Western University and earned a medical degree from the 
University of Tennessee.
  He was elected to represent the 5th Congressional District in 1965 
and served until 1980. Of course, he gained national attention as the 
first Republican Congressman to seek the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam.
  In Kentucky, Mr. Carter was known for efforts to improve his district 
and was actively involved in many various activities, not only in the 
immediate community where he lived, but throughout the State of 
Kentucky, and proved himself an effective public servant.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. LaTOURETTE. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Pease). The question is on the motion 
offered by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. LaTourette) that the House 
suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 5144.
  The question was taken; and (two-thirds having voted in favor 
thereof) the rules were suspended and the bill was passed.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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