James Moran: “This bill would name a post office after my good friend, Congressman Herb Harris. It will be at 8588 Richmond Highway…”

“This bill would name a post office after my good friend, Congressman Herb Harris. It will be at 8588 Richmond Highway, which is Route 1. It is a brand new post office in an area that desperately needs a post office and needs economic redevelopment, and this will provide it to that area. It is more than appropriate that we honor Herb Harris, who represented the Mount Vernon District on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, became vice chair, as the gentleman from Virginia has said, and he still lives in Mount Vernon. He is still very much involved in what goes on in that community. He did more things for that community and for Fairfax County, and, in many ways, for the Nation, than we will ever know. He began his public service in 1968. He was instrumental in getting funding for a new hospital and expanding the libraries in the Mount Vernon area and in Fairfax County. He spent a lot of time on thankless tasks, like limiting utility costs and tax rates. He was first elected in 1975 to the Congress after serving as vice chair of the Metropolitan Washington Transit Authority, and he used that experience on the Metro board to continually push for expansion of the Metro system.”