[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 15]
[House]
[Pages 21315-21316]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            MASTER SERGEANT SEAN MICHAEL THOMAS POST OFFICE

  Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform be discharged from further 
consideration of the bill (H.R. 2765) to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 44 North Main Street in 
Hughesville, Pennsylvania, as the ``Master Sergeant Sean Michael Thomas 
Post Office,'' and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Illinois?
  There was no objection.
  The Clerk read the bill, as follows

                               H.R. 2765

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

     SECTION 1. MASTER SERGEANT SEAN MICHAEL THOMAS POST OFFICE.

       (a) Designation.--The facility of the United States Postal 
     Service located at 44 North Main Street in Hughesville, 
     Pennsylvania, shall be known and designated as the `Master 
     Sergeant Sean Michael Thomas Post Office'.
       (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 `Master Sergeant Sean Michael Thomas Post 
     Office'.

  Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, Master Sergeant Sean Michael 
Thomas died on March 27, 2007 in Baghdad, Iraq. He was serving with the 
Harrisburg-based 28th Division Support Command. Master Sergeant Thomas 
joined the Pennsylvania National Guard in 1998 after 6 years in the 
Army Reserve. He had planned to attend Officer Candidates School in 
October and wanted to be a teacher when he returned to civilian life. 
His unit's commander, Colonel Jesse Deets, called Master Sergeant 
Thomas a model officer and friend.

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  Mr. Speaker, I commend my colleague Representative Christopher Carney 
for introducing this legislation and urge the swift passage of this 
bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, was read 
the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the 
table.

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