To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1200 William Street, Room 200, in Buffalo, New York, as the "William J. Donovan Post Office Building".

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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. 1706, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1200 William Street, Room 200, in Buffalo, New York, as the “William J. Donovan Post Office Building”",
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