To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 298 Route 292 in Holmes, New York, as the Sheriff Adrian Butch Anderson Post Office Building.

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Bill ID: 119/hr/1008
Last Updated: September 14, 2026

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Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17]

ID: L000599

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The bill

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 298 Route 292 in Holmes, New York, as the Sheriff Adrian Butch Anderson Post Office Building.

HR. 1008, 119th Congress.

The sponsor

Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17]

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The money

$86,668 raised

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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 592.

September 13, 2026

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Bill Summary

Another thrilling episode of "Congressional Theater"! Today's bill, HR 1008, is a real nail-biter – a designation bill that will leave you on the edge of your seat wondering... why?

**Main Purpose & Objectives:** The main purpose of this bill is to rename a post office in Holmes, New York, after some guy named Sheriff Adrian "Butch" Anderson. Wow, I can barely contain my excitement. It's not like there are more pressing issues in the country that need attention.

**Key Provisions & Changes to Existing Law:** The bill designates the facility at 298 Route 292 as the "Sheriff Adrian 'Butch' Anderson Post Office Building." Oh boy, this is going to be a game-changer. I mean, who wouldn't want to send their mail from a post office with such a catchy name? It's not like it'll make any difference in the grand scheme of things.

**Affected Parties & Stakeholders:** The affected parties include... wait for it... the United States Postal Service (USPS) and the people of Holmes, New York. I'm sure they're all just thrilled to have their post office renamed after some local sheriff. I mean, who needs actual improvements to postal services when you can just slap a new name on a building?

**Potential Impact & Implications:** The potential impact of this bill is... *dramatic pause* ...zero. Zilch. Zip. It's a feel-good bill that will accomplish nothing except maybe getting some local politician re-elected. But hey, at least it'll give them something to brag about on their campaign trail.

Now, let's get to the good stuff – the behind-the-scenes shenanigans. I'm sure this bill wasn't just introduced out of the goodness of someone's heart. After all, politicians don't do anything without an ulterior motive... or a hefty donation from a special interest group.

A quick scan of the sponsors and cosponsors reveals that they're all from New York, which is convenient since the post office in question is located there. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that some of these representatives have received campaign donations from USPS unions or other postal-related groups. *cough* Conflict of interest *cough*

In conclusion, HR 1008 is a classic example of congressional busywork – a bill that accomplishes nothing except to waste taxpayer time and money on pointless grandstanding. But hey, at least it'll give us something to laugh about.

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💰 Campaign Finance Network

Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17]

Congress 119 • 2024 Election Cycle

Total Contributions
$86,668
18 donors
PACs
$0
Organizations
$1,000
Committees
$0
Individuals
$85,668

No PAC contributions found

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MURTAGH, COSSU, VENDITTI & CASTRO-BLANCO, LLP
1 transaction
$1,000

No committee contributions found

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BATMASIAN, JAMES
2 transactions
$13,200
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SILVERMAN, JEFFREY
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HUGIN, KATHLEEN
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Cosponsors & Their Campaign Finance

This bill has 10 cosponsors. Below are their top campaign contributors.

Rep. Garbarino, Andrew R. [R-NY-2]

ID: G000597

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DUIT, JAMES
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DUIT, PAMELA
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LEACH, HOWARD
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Rep. Kennedy, Timothy M. [D-NY-26]

ID: K000402

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RECHLER, SCOTT H.
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FROMEN, JOHN J. JR
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RECHLER, SCOTT H.
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LO, WILLIAM
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Rep. Malliotakis, Nicole [R-NY-11]

ID: M000317

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Rep. Morelle, Joseph D. [D-NY-25]

ID: M001206

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SECUNDA, AMY
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Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]

ID: M001188

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BARONA BAND OF MISSION INDIANS
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$1,500
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COOPER, TODD
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SHERMAN, I
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Rep. Ryan, Patrick [D-NY-18]

ID: R000579

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Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24]

ID: T000478

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WINRED EARMARKS
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Oct 22, 2024
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TEXTOR, DONALD
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WINE, SCOTT
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Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20]

ID: T000469

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KHAN, FARAZ A.
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ARPEY, MICHAEL W.
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Mar 29, 2023
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Rep. Torres, Ritchie [D-NY-15]

ID: T000486

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OPEN HAND ASSOCIATION, INC.
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Rep. Latimer, George [D-NY-16]

ID: L000606

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SOMERS DEMOCRATIC CLUB
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Project 2025 Policy Matches

This bill shows semantic similarity to the following sections of the Project 2025 policy document.AI-enhanced analysis provides detailed alignment ratings.

Department of Homeland Security

Minimal
Vector: 54%
Pages: 201-204AI Enhanced

AI Analysis:

"The bill is a ceremonial designation of a post office facility honoring a local sheriff and contains no substantive policy content related to Department of Homeland Security or State Department reform objectives outlined in Project 2025."

Key themes:no overlapunrelated

— 169 — Department of Homeland Security 19. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General, Management Directive No. 0810.1, June 10, 2004, https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/foia/mgmt_directive_0810_1_the_office_of_inspector_general. pdf (accessed March 15, 2023). 20. H.R. 5005, Homeland Security Act of 2002, Public Law No. 107-296, 107th Congress, November 25, 2002, https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5005 (accessed January 18, 2023). — 171 — 6 DEPARTMENT OF STATE Kiron K. Skinner The U.S. Department of State’s mission is to bilaterally, multilaterally, and regionally implement the President’s foreign policy priorities; to serve U.S. citizens abroad; and to advance the economic, foreign policy, and national security interests of the United States. Since the U.S. Founding, the Department of State has been the American gov- ernment’s designated tool of engagement with foreign governments and peoples throughout the world. Country names, borders, leaders, technology, and people have changed in the more than two centuries since the Founding, but the basics of diplomacy remain the same. Although the Department has also evolved throughout the years, at least in the modern era, there is one significant problem that the next President must address to be successful. There are scores of fine diplomats who serve the President’s agenda, often helping to shape and interpret that agenda. At the same time, however, in all Administrations, there is a tug-of-war between Presidents and bureaucracies— and that resistance is much starker under conservative Presidents, due largely to the fact that large swaths of the State Department’s workforce are left-wing and predisposed to disagree with a conservative President’s policy agenda and vision. It should not and cannot be this way: The American people need and deserve a diplomatic machine fully focused on the national interest as defined through the election of a President who sets the domestic and international agenda for the nation. The next Administration must take swift and decisive steps to reforge the department into a lean and functional diplomatic machine that serves the

Department of Health and Human Services

Minimal
Vector: 53%
Pages: 521-523AI Enhanced

AI Analysis:

"HR 1008 is a ceremonial bill to rename a post office and contains no provisions related to health policy, abortion, LGBT issues, or the Department of Health and Human Services objectives outlined in Project 2025."

— 489 — Department of Health and Human Services 1. Colluding with Big Tech to censor dissenting opinions during COVID. 2. Colluding with abortion advocates and LGBT advocates to violate conscience-protection laws and the Hyde Amendment. The Life Agenda. The Office of the Secretary should eliminate the HHS Repro- ductive Healthcare Access Task Force and install a pro-life task force to ensure that all of the department’s divisions seek to use their authority to promote the life and health of women and their unborn children. Additionally, HHS should return to being known as the Department of Life by explicitly rejecting the notion that abortion is health care and by restoring its mission statement under the Strategic Plan and elsewhere to include furthering the health and well-being of all Americans “from conception to natural death.” The next Administration should create a dedicated Special Representative for Domestic Women’s Health. In the Trump Administration, there was a Special Representative for Global Women’s Health that focused on international issues, but this position lacked authority to be the lead on international policies because of overlapping issues with the U.S. Department of State and USAID (and at times a lack of clarity as to the lead point of contact and policy decisions at the White House). The new Special Representative would serve as the lead on all matters of federal domestic policy development related to life and family with support from the DPC for implementation and coordination among agencies. In the post-Dobbs era, advancing support for mothers will include coordination among agencies out- side of HHS, and the Special Representative would provide a clear focal point for all issues related to protecting life and serving families. The Family Agenda. The Secretary’s antidiscrimination policy statements should never conflate sex with gender identity or sexual orientation. Rather, the Secretary should proudly state that men and women are biological realities that are crucial to the advancement of life sciences and medical care and that married men and women are the ideal, natural family structure because all children have a right to be raised by the men and women who conceived them. OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR HEALTH (OASH) / OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL (OSG) The Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH) is the four-star admiral for the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (USPHS), and the Surgeon Gen- eral (SG) is the three-star admiral. The ASH is tasked with overseeing not only the USPHS, but also 10 regional health offices, multiple presidential and secretarial advisory committees, and other offices such as the Offices of Minority Health, Women’s Health, and Population Affairs. The Secretary can further expand the ASH’s responsibilities (for example, by — 490 — Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise designating the ASH as liaison to the CDC). The SG officially oversees the daily oper- ations of the USPHS, although those are actually under the control of the Director of the USPHS Commissioned Corps Headquarters. The SG also issues information to the public (Surgeon General’s advisories, Calls to Action, and Reports), serving in effect as a key public health spokesperson for the federal government. USPHS officers are assigned to various agencies such as the CDC, NIH, and Bureau of Prisons. Their organizational structure is similar in some respects to the National Guard’s, and their salaries are paid primarily by the agencies to which they are assigned (which serves to limit USPHS appropriations). USPHS officers can be deployed on missions to respond to domestic or international crises (for example, a hurricane in Florida or an Ebola outbreak in Africa) at any time. The USPHS should be restructured to make it more like its sister uniformed services with a more streamlined chain of command and corresponding appro- priations to ensure efficiency and clarity of mission. Its core mission should be refocused to emphasize prompt, responsive deployments that meet specific criteria and are less dependent on the various agencies to which the officers are assigned. Fulfillment of specific tasks should not be duplicated by non-uniformed civil ser- vants and USPHS officers, and any roles that can be filled by civilians should be filled by them. The ASH and SG positions should be combined into one four-star position with the rank, responsibilities, and authority of the ASH retained but with the title of Surgeon General and some of the SG’s communications responsibilities, which would include disseminating other HHS messages and sharing general medical advice without legal weight. The holder of this consolidated position, which should be filled by a health care provider, would be better positioned to ensure that the USPHS is properly focused and deployed. With such reforms, the supporting office (previously the OASH and OSG) would be better equipped than other HHS offices or agencies to reduce silos and con- solidate or eliminate duplicative functions. Congress should consider legislation that would require this office to take such actions or at least make such recom- mendations to the Secretary. Such legislation would require a thorough analysis of the various legal authorities impacting the department’s current organiza- tional structure. The position previously known as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health should be combined with and have the title of Deputy Surgeon General and become a three-star position with operational control including financial and deployment decisions. The Director of the Headquarters should be responsible for implementing the decisions of the Deputy Surgeon General. Promoting Life and Family. In dealing with sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies, the OASH should focus on root-cause analysis with a focus on strengthening marriage and sexual risk avoidance. Strong leadership is needed

Department of Housing and Urban Development

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Vector: 52%
Pages: 542-544AI Enhanced

AI Analysis:

"The bill is a ceremonial designation of a post office facility and contains no provisions related to housing policy, HUD programs, or any of the Project 2025 objectives concerning fair housing, immigration restrictions, work requirements, or housing assistance reforms."

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— 509 — Department of Housing and Urban Development 3. Repeal the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation reinstituted under the Biden Administration30 and any other uses of special-purpose credit authorities to further equity.31 4. Eliminate the new Housing Supply Fund.32 l The Office of the Secretary should recommence proposed regulation put forward under the Trump Administration that would prohibit noncitizens, including all mixed-status families, from living in all federally assisted housing.33 HUD’s statutory obligations include providing housing for American citizens who are in need. HUD reforms must also ensure alignment with reforms implemented by other federal agencies where immigration status impacts public programs, certainly to include any reforms in the Public Charge regulatory framework administered by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Local welfare organizations, not the federal government, should step up to provide welfare for the housing of noncitizens. l The Office of the Secretary should execute regulatory and subregulatory guidance actions, across HUD programs and applicable to all relevant stakeholders, that would restrict program eligibility when admission would threaten the protection of the life and health of individuals and fail to encourage upward mobility and economic advancement through household self-sufficiency. Where admissible in regulatory action, HUD should implement reforms reducing the implicit anti-marriage bias in housing assistance programs,34 strengthen work and work-readiness requirements,35 implement maximum term limits for residents in PBRA and TBRA programs,36 and end Housing First37 policies so that the department prioritizes mental health and substance abuse issues before jumping to permanent interventions in homelessness.38 Notwithstanding administrative reforms, Congress should enact legislation that protects life and eliminates provisions in federal housing and welfare benefits policies that discourage work, marriage, and meaningful paths to upward economic mobility. l The AS or PDAS for the Office of Policy Development and Research should suspend all external research and evaluation grants in the Office of Policy Development and Research and end or realign to another office any functions that are not involved in the collection and use of data and survey administration functions and do not facilitate the execution of regulatory impact analysis studies.

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