House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1706 South Burnside Avenue in Gonzales, Louisiana, as the "Cpl. Lawrence Brown Post Office Building".
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 3, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 3, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 10253.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CARTER of Louisiana, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 140, September 3, 2026, Page H5509):This bill is introduced pursuant to the powers granted to Congress under theGeneral Welfare Clause (Art. 1 Sec. 8 Cl. 1).Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 3, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 121 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 10253, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/10253
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 4, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 12, 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 September 4, 2026). 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
5 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 1 Democrat
4 of 5 cosponsors (80%) are from the other party.
Cleo Fields (D-LA), Clay Higgins (R-LA), Mike Johnson (R-LA), Julia Letlow (R-LA), Steve Scalise (R-LA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Troy Carter.
- H.R. 5109 (119th) Transportation Worker Identification Credential Efficiency Act
- H.R. 8874 (119th) Homeland Security Capabilities Preservation Reporting Act of 2026
- H.R. 2037 (119th) Open RAN Outreach Act
- H.R. 1374 (119th) Securing the Cities Improvement Act
- H.R. 6782 (119th) Public Health Air Quality Act of 2025
- H.R. 7602 (119th) State of Men’s Health Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.