House bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3260 Broad Street in Port Henry, New York, as the "Dain Taylor Venne Post Office Building".
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedNov 21, 2013
- Committee actionMar 12, 2014
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 12, 2014 — Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3609.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. OWENS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H7356):This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article I, Section 8, of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 125 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3609, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/3609
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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.
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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
26 cosponsors — 6 Republicans, 20 Democrats
6 of 26 cosponsors (23%) are from the other party.
Timothy Bishop (D-NY), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Chris Collins (R-NY), Joseph Crowley (D-NY), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Christopher Gibson (R-NY), Michael Grimm (R-NY), Richard Hanna (R-NY), Brian Higgins (D-NY), Steve Israel (D-NY), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Peter King (R-NY), Nita Lowey (D-NY), Daniel Maffei (D-NY), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Sean Maloney (D-NY), Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Grace Meng (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Tom Reed (R-NY), Jose Serrano (D-NY), Louise Slaughter (D-NY), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY).
More from the sponsor
Other 113th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. William Owens.
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- H.R. 1140 (113th) Family Friendly HSA Improvement Act of 2013
- H.R. 1298 (113th) To amend the Export Apple Act to permit the export of apples to Canada in bulk bins without certification by the Department of Agriculture.
- H.R. 1266 (113th) To amend title 40, United States Code, concerning the calculation of transactions for the lease of land ports of entry and international…
- H.R. 1297 (113th) Agricultural Credit Expansion Act
Sponsor’s state and district
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.