[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 15]
[House]
[Pages 20333-20334]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                REVEREND EARL ABEL POST OFFICE BUILDING

  Ms. SUTTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Oversight and Government Reform be discharged from further 
consideration of the bill (H.R. 6198) to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 1700 Cleveland Avenue in Kansas 
City, Missouri, as the ``Reverend Earl Abel Post Office Building,'' 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 
gentlewoman from Ohio?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the bill is as follows:

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                               H.R. 6198

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

     SECTION 1. REVEREND EARL ABEL POST OFFICE BUILDING.

       (a) Designation.--The facility of the United States Postal 
     Service located at 1700 Cleveland Avenue in Kansas City, 
     Missouri, shall be known and designated as the ``Reverend 
     Earl Abel 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 ``Reverend Earl Abel Post Office 
     Building''.

  Mr. CLEAVER. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise to honor my friend and 
colleague the late Reverend Earl Abel of Kansas City, MO. In life, 
Reverend Earl Abel labored tirelessly for nearly 50 years as a 
minister, a community leader and mentor to countless members of the 
Kansas City community. When Reverend Abel founded the Palestine 
Missionary Baptist Church of Jesus Christ he only had 11 members. 
Today, his church has grown into one of the larger ministries in the 
Kansas City community. Under his leadership the church has built two 
senior citizens residences, a Senior Activity Center and a church camp 
for both youths and adults in the larger Kansas City community.
  The Kansas City community was so central to Rev. Abel's heart, that 
in addition to the good works his church was engaged in. He personally 
took on many other important roles to serve the community that he loved 
including Chaplain for the Kansas City Police Department, President of 
the Baptist Ministers Union, and member of the Kansas City Council on 
Crime Prevention. In 1999, he was appointed to the Appellate Judicial 
Commission by Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan. Rev. Abel spent his life 
building good will and love and now it is my privilege to ask for your 
help to honor this man by naming a post office in the heart of Kansas 
City in his name.
  My fellow Members of Congress, I urge you to support H.R. 6198 which 
will designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 1700 Cleveland Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, as the ``Reverend 
Earl Abel Post Office Building.''

  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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