[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 35 (Tuesday, February 27, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S1015]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   REUBEN E. LAWSON FEDERAL BUILDING

  The bill (S. 3412) to redesignate the Richard H. Poff Federal 
Building located at 210 Franklin Road Southwest in Roanoke, Virginia, 
as the ``Reuben E. Lawson Federal Building'', and for other purposes, 
was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, was read a third time, 
and passed as follows:

                                S. 3412

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

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Reuben E. Lawson Federal 
     Building Act of 2023''.

     SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

       Congress finds that--
       (1) Reuben E. Lawson dedicated his life and career to 
     promoting the ideals of equality and inclusion as a lawyer 
     for the Roanoke chapter of the National Association for the 
     Advancement of Colored People (commonly known as the 
     ``NAACP'') who actively worked to end segregation in 
     Southwest Virginia;
       (2) arguing a number of significant cases in the Western 
     District of Virginia, Reuben E. Lawson fought to ensure the 
     enforcement of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 
     U.S. 483 (1954), so that schools in the Roanoke region would 
     be fully integrated; and
       (3) Southwest Virginians are indebted to Reuben E. Lawson 
     for his important work in ending segregation, and it is 
     fitting that he be remembered in the current home of the 
     court in which he valiantly fought.

     SEC. 3. REUBEN E. LAWSON FEDERAL BUILDING.

       (a) Redesignation.--The Richard H. Poff Federal Building 
     located at 210 Franklin Road Southwest in Roanoke, Virginia, 
     shall be known and designated as the ``Reuben E. Lawson 
     Federal Building''.
       (b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, 
     document, paper, or other record of the United States to the 
     Richard H. Poff Federal Building shall be deemed to be a 
     reference to the ``Reuben E. Lawson Federal Building''.

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