Sam Gibbons: “Mr. Speaker, on April 4, I introduced H.R. 4169 to designate the post office located at 2000 Vassar Street in Reno…”

“Mr. Speaker, on April 4, I introduced H.R. 4169 to designate the post office located at 2000 Vassar Street in Reno, Nevada as the Barbara G. Vucanovich Post Office Building. As the current congressman, Mr. Speaker, representing the Second Congressional District of Nevada, I have the distinct honor and, may I say, great challenge of following Barbara Vucanovich in Congress. Mrs. Vucanovich retired from Congress after serving 14 years as the representative of one of the most diverse and vast congressional districts in this country. As Nevada's very first female representative in Congress, she focused on a variety of issues important to Nevadans, including Federal wilderness and national park policy, as we have heard earlier, public land use and nuclear waste policy issues that affected the State of Nevada.”