House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 11158 Highway 146 North in Hardin, Texas, as the "Lucas Lowe Post Office".
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedDec 19, 2018
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 19, 2018 — Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7331.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BABIN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H10336):Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, record updated February 4, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 54 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7331, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/7331
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- February 4, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 22, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
3b0660fa812d5eb2becb33ac621e677eb710206b6bc090d494e6dbee097f1391
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 February 4, 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
29 cosponsors — 22 Republicans, 7 Democrats
7 of 29 cosponsors (24%) are from the other party.
Jodey Arrington (R-TX), Mike Bost (R-IL), John Carter (R-TX), Steve Chabot (R-OH), Michael Cloud (R-TX), K. Conaway (R-TX), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), John Culberson (R-TX), John Curtis (R-UT), Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), Kay Granger (R-TX), Al Green (D-TX), Gene Green (D-TX), Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), Will Hurd (R-TX), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Kenny Marchant (R-TX), Michael McCaul (R-TX), Tom McClintock (R-CA), Pete Olson (R-TX), Ted Poe (R-TX), John Ratcliffe (R-TX), Pete Sessions (R-TX), Lamar Smith (R-TX), William Thornberry (R-TX), Marc Veasey (D-TX), Filemon Vela (D-TX), Randy Weber (R-TX).
More from the sponsor
Other 115th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Brian Babin.
- H.R. 5503 (115th) National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2018
- H.R. 1735 (115th) Community Empowerment for Mitigated Properties Act of 2017
- H.R. 3282 (115th) ELD Extension Act of 2017
- H.R. 80 (115th) Resettlement Accountability National Security Act of 2017
- H.R. 82 (115th) Criminal Alien Deportation Enforcement Act of 2017
- H.R. 5417 (115th) REST Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 22, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.