H.R. 1431, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2407 State Route 71, Suite 1, in Spring Lake, New Jersey, as the “James J. Howard Post Office”

On December 2, 2025, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform ordered reported the following 14 bills that would name different post offices:

• H.R. 1431, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2407 State Route 71, Suite 1, in Spring Lake, New Jersey, as the “James J. Howard Post Office”;
• H.R. 1461, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 521 Thorn Street in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, as the “Mary Elizabeth 'Bettie' Cole Post Office Building”;
• H.R. 1706, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1200 William Street, Room 200, in Buffalo, New York, as the “William J. Donovan Post Office Building”;
• H.R. 2175, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 130 South Patterson Avenue in Santa Barbara, California, as the “Brigadier General Frederick R. Lopez Post Office Building”;
• H.R. 2466, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5225 Harrison Avenue in Rockford, Illinois, as the “Jay P. Larson Post Office Building”;
• H.R. 3393, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 12208 North 19th Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona, as the “Officer Zane T. Coolidge Post Office”;
• H.R. 4635, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 890 East 152nd Street in Cleveland, Ohio, as the “Technical Sergeant Alma Gladys Minter Post Office Building”;
• H.R. 4707, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1019 Avenue H in Fort Madison, Iowa, as the “Martin L. Graber Post Office”;
• H.R. 5058, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 46164 Westlake Drive in Sterling, Virginia, as the “Firefighter Trevor Brown Post Office Building”;
• H.R. 5773, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service at 1300 East Northwest Highway in Palatine, Illinois, as the “Bernie Bluestein Post Office Building”;
• H.R. 5831, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 306 South Main Street in Waupaca, Wisconsin, as the “Master Sergeant Melvin O. Handrich Post Office Building”;
• H.R. 6310, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3570 Olney Laytonsville Road in Olney, Maryland, as the “Edward L. Ramsey Olney Post Office Building”;
• H.R. 6317, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 12109 New Kent Highway in New Kent, Virginia, as the “Patricia Paige Post Office”; and
• H.R. 6332, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10660 Page Avenue in Fairfax, Virginia, as the “Congressman Gerald E. Connolly Post Office Building."

Cash flows for the Postal Service are recorded in the federal budget in the Postal Service Fund and are classified as off-budget direct spending. CBO estimates that the cost of naming each of those facilities would be less than $500,000.

The CBO staff contact for this estimate is David Rafferty. The estimate was reviewed by Christina Hawley Anthony, Deputy Director of Budget Analysis.