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On the recordAugust 5, 2010
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to proceed to Calendar No. 485. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (H.R. 3562) to designate the federally occupied building located at 1220 Echelon Parkway in Jackson, Mississippi, as the ``James Cheney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner Federal Building''. There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill, which had been reported from the Committee on Environment and Public Works, with an amendment to strike all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic. H.R. 3562 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. BUILDING DESIGNATION. The Administrator of General Services shall ensure that the federally occupied building located at 1220 Echelon Parkway in Jackson, Mississippi, is known and designated as the ``James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and Roy K. Moore Federal Building''. SEC. 2. REFERENCES. With respect to the period in which the building referred to in section 1 is federally occupied, any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to that building shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and Roy K. Moore Federal Building''.…
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