House bill · 113th Congress · Public Law 113-211

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 220 Elm Avenue in Munising, Michigan, as the "Elizabeth L. Kinnunen Post Office Building".

H.R. 2223Introduced Jun 3, 2013Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Became law on Dec 16, 2014.

Sponsor: Rep. Dan Benishek R-MI

Open in Bill Explorer →

Where it went

IntroducedJun 3, 2013
Committee actionMay 21, 2014
Passed HouseJul 14, 2014 · by voice vote
Passed SenateDec 8, 2014 · by unanimous consent
To the PresidentDec 10, 2014
Became lawDec 16, 2014

Latest action: Dec 16, 2014 — Became Public Law No: 113-211.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2223.

Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BENISHEK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H3015):
Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 The Congress shall have Power . . . To establish Post Offices and post roads.
Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗
Evidence
Field in the Congress.gov record
constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
Statement length
108 characters
Congress.gov bill record
H.R. 2223, 113th Congress
Congress.gov API record
https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/2223
Record last updated by Congress.gov
April 7, 2025
PORKER copy retrieved
September 23, 2026
Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
d3bd5f9c431380b10ee23e4c4865fa912f003a95e760018df39cf25b3e53679a
PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

Sent to: Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs CommitteeBills with a CBO estimate Bills with a committee report See it in the Data Web

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2223, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 23, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.

Vote results

No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).

Cosponsors

13 cosponsors — 7 Republicans, 5 Democrats, 1 other

5 of 13 cosponsors (38%) are from the other party.

Justin Amash (L-MI), Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI), Dave Camp (R-MI), John Conyers (D-MI), John Dingell (D-MI), Bill Huizenga (R-MI), Daniel Kildee (D-MI), Sander Levin (D-MI), Candice Miller (R-MI), Gary Peters (D-MI), Mike Rogers (R-MI), Fred Upton (R-MI), Tim Walberg (R-MI).

More from the sponsor

Other 113th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Dan Benishek.

Sponsor’s state and district

Michigan in Congress · MI-1 district

Open in Bill Explorer →

Data as of Sep 23, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.