House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5951 Riverdale Avenue in Bronx, New York, as the "Eliot L. Engel Post Office".
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 7, 2026
- Committee actionMay 20, 2026
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 20, 2026 — Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 37 - 4.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8669.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 8669, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5951 Riverdale Avenue in Bronx, New York, as the “Eliot L. Engel Post Office”” on June 9, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on May 20, 2026”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 9, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
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- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62509
- CBO publication date
- June 9, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8669, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8669
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. TORRES of New York, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 78, May 7, 2026, Page H3342):Article 1, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 7, 2026 ↗
Evidence
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- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8669, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8669
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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
25 cosponsors — 7 Republicans, 18 Democrats
7 of 25 cosponsors (28%) are from the other party.
Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Laura Gillen (D-NY), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Timothy Kennedy (D-NY), Nick LaLota (R-NY), Nicholas Langworthy (R-NY), George Latimer (D-NY), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), John Mannion (D-NY), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Grace Meng (D-NY), Joseph Morelle (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Josh Riley (D-NY), Patrick Ryan (D-NY), Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Thomas Suozzi (D-NY), Claudia Tenney (R-NY), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY).
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.