the clerk: h.r. 2548 a bill to designate the facility of the united states postal service located at 6310 north university street in peoria, illinois, as the charles "chip" lawrence chan post office building. the chair: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from oklahoma, mr. lankford, and the gentleman, mr. davis, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from oklahoma. mr. lankford: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume and ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized. mr. lankford: thank you mr. speaker. h.r. 2548 would designate the facility of the united states postal service located at 6310 north university street in peoria, illinois, as the charps "chip" lawrence chan post office building. with that i choose to yield to mr. schock as much time as he may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. schock: thank you, m

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he turned twenty five forty eight a bill to just meet the facility of united states postal service located at sixty three turned north university street in peoria illinois it is the charles chip lawrence tram post office building i offer this look. is there that this is right before our financial armageddon post office name change i mean what is the deal there breaking through this what i find really interesting was even more than that apparently thirteen per cent of all bills that have made it to obama says that he has signed have been renaming postop was i mean is that the only thing our government can get done if they're going to i mean this is incredibly important stuff going on here you know the renaming of post office i can't have anything more important aside from maybe saving the entire world economy by raising the debt ceiling but the reason this happened is because john boehner is a totally ineffectual speaker of the house and couldn't get his caucus in line to actually vote on a bill his own bill is a republican bill so there's a scramble last night was amazing to watch this new

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