To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 29 Franklin Street in Petersburg, Virginia, as the "John Mercer Langston Post Office Building".

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7385.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 7385, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 29 Franklin Street in Petersburg, Virginia, as the “John Mercer Langston Post Office Building” on May 7, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on April 10, 2024”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 7, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60262

  CBO publication date

  May 7, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7385, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7385

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 17, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  566d6241a94b1011f70f7b5d0224e9cfba9040f1267e39256ea9d9457267b3bf

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 7385, an act to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 29 Franklin Street in Petersburg, Virginia, as the “John Mercer Langston Post Office Building” on September 27, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on September 25, 2024”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 27, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60793

  CBO publication date

  September 27, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7385, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7385

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 17, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  566d6241a94b1011f70f7b5d0224e9cfba9040f1267e39256ea9d9457267b3bf

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. McCLELLAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 30, February 15, 2024, Page H680):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution: ``Congress shall have the power . . . to establish post offices and post roads.'' The single subject of this legislation is: This bill names a United States Post Office in Petersburg, Virginia after John Mercer Langston, the first African- American elected to Congress from Virginia.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 15, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  349 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7385, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/7385

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 17, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  566d6241a94b1011f70f7b5d0224e9cfba9040f1267e39256ea9d9457267b3bf

  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 committee report (as of July 17, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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