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To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 300 Macedonia Lane in Knoxville, Tennessee, as the "Reverend Harold Middlebrook Post Office Building".

Introduced Feb 14, 2025

Latest action (Sep 14, 2026) Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 594.

Referred to
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Policy area
Government Operations and Politics
Legislative subjects (4)
Congressional tributesGovernment buildings, facilities, and propertyPostal serviceTennessee

Summary

- Designates the United States Postal Service facility located at 300 Macedonia Lane in Knoxville, Tennessee as the "Reverend Harold Middlebrook Post Office Building".

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Sponsor (1)
8 cosponsors

Actions (14)
  1. Sep 14, 2026 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 594. · senate
  2. Sep 14, 2026 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Paul without amendment. Without written report. · senate
  3. Aug 6, 2026 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably. · senate
  4. Dec 10, 2025 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. · senate
  5. Dec 9, 2025 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. · house
  6. Dec 9, 2025 On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5099) · house
  7. Dec 9, 2025 Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5099)
  8. Dec 9, 2025 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1372. · house
  9. Dec 9, 2025 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5099-5100) · house
  10. Dec 9, 2025 Mr. Gill (TX) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill. · house
  11. Apr 30, 2025 Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 15. · house
  12. Apr 30, 2025 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held · house
  13. Feb 14, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Gov Reform. · house
  14. Feb 14, 2025 Introduced in House

More bills on these subjects (8)

Other bills that carry the most legislative subjects in common with this one (topical discovery — distinct from the procedural related bills above).

  • HR 6808 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 417 West 7th Street in Columbia, Tennessee, as the "Pharmacist’s Mate First Class John Harlan Willis Post Office Building". (shares 4 subjects)
  • HR 9570 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 117 West Lovett Street in Charlotte, Michigan, as the "Francis C. Flaherty Post Office Building". (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 7365 — 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". (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 6006 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 401 North Elm Street in Tuskegee, Alabama, as the "Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Post Office". (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 8193 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 189 East Main Street in Xenia, Ohio, as the "Gil Whitney Post Office Building". (shares 3 subjects)
  • S 24 — A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 154 First Avenue East in Jerome, Idaho, as the "Representative Maxine Bell Post Office". (shares 3 subjects)
  • S 3294 — A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10660 Page Avenue in Fairfax, Virginia, as the "Congressman Gerald E. Connolly Post Office Building". (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 6247 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 13355 North Lon Adams Road in Marana, Arizona, as the "Mayor Ed Honea Memorial Post Office". (shares 3 subjects)

Text versions (4)
  • Reported to Senate · Sep 14, 2026
  • Referred in Senate · Dec 10, 2025
  • Engrossed in House · Dec 9, 2025
  • Introduced in House · Feb 14, 2025

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Full text

AN ACT

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 300 Macedonia Lane in Knoxville, Tennessee, as the “Reverend Harold Middlebrook Post Office Building”.

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

SECTION 1. REVEREND HAROLD MIDDLEBROOK POST OFFICE BUILDING.

(a) Designation.—The facility of the United States Postal Service located at 300 Macedonia Lane in Knoxville, Tennessee, shall be known and designated as the “Reverend Harold Middlebrook 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 Harold Middlebrook Post Office Building”.

Passed the House of Representatives December 9, 2025.

Attest:

Clerk. 119th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 1372

AN ACT

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 300 Macedonia Lane in Knoxville, Tennessee, as the “Reverend Harold Middlebrook Post Office Building”.

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