HR 7365
Passed a chamber
Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility at 1225 Kempsville Road in Virginia Beach, Virginia, as the Colonel Edward Shames Post Office Building.
Official title: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1225 Kempsville Road in Virginia Beach, Virginia, as the "Colonel Edward Shames Post Office Building".
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
04-FEB-2026
Referred
04-FEB-2026
Approved by committee
22-JUL-2026
Passed
16-SEP-2026
Senate
Received
17-SEP-2026
- Names the Postal Service facility at 1225 Kempsville Road in Virginia Beach the Colonel Edward Shames Post Office Building.
- Treats any reference in federal laws, maps, regulations, or records to the facility as a reference to the new name.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (04-FEB-2026); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 16-SEP-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Oversight and Government Reform Committee (House)
- Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (Senate)
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5 Democrats