To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2407 State Route 71, Suite 1, in Spring Lake, New Jersey, as the "James J. Howard Post Office".

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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

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      "title": "H.R. 1431, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2407 State Route 71, Suite 1, in Spring Lake, New Jersey, as the “James J. Howard Post Office”",
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