Designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1221 State Street, Suite 12, Santa Barbara, California, as the "Special Warfare Operator Master Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Louis 'Lou' J. Langlais Post Office Building".

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3218.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. CAPPS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 119, July 27, 2015, Page H5524):
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, which reads: ``The Congress shall have Power . . . To establish Post Offices and post Roads'' Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitution, which reads: ``The Congress shall have Power . . . To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States or in any Department or Officer thereof''
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 27, 2015 ↗

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  Statement length

  509 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3218, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3218

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3b7b4645b2e8cb3860c8e08c6087a9b3a04a69064d5be3a71ea02e1266b8dbf8

  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 noteThe Senate passed the bill on 12/5/2016, then vitiated its passage on 12/5/2016, then passed the bill on 12/10/2016.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3218, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3218

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3b7b4645b2e8cb3860c8e08c6087a9b3a04a69064d5be3a71ea02e1266b8dbf8

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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