[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1306 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1306

  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that a postage 
 stamp should be issued to honor the lives of Joseph Curseen, Jr. and 
 Thomas Morris, Jr., the two United States Postal Service workers and 
District of Columbia natives who died as a result of their contact with 
  anthrax while working at the United States Postal Service facility 
 located at 900 Brentwood Road, NE, Washington, DC, during the anthrax 
                      attack in the fall of 2001.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 28, 2010

 Ms. Norton submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
            the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that a postage 
 stamp should be issued to honor the lives of Joseph Curseen, Jr. and 
 Thomas Morris, Jr., the two United States Postal Service workers and 
District of Columbia natives who died as a result of their contact with 
  anthrax while working at the United States Postal Service facility 
 located at 900 Brentwood Road, NE, Washington, DC, during the anthrax 
                      attack in the fall of 2001.

Whereas Joseph Curseen, Jr. and Thomas Morris, Jr. served honorably and 
        diligently in the United States Postal Service for a combined period of 
        52 years;
Whereas in the fall of 2001, during the course of their jobs with the United 
        States Postal Service, Joseph Curseen, Jr. and Thomas Morris, Jr. were 
        exposed to letters containing anthrax that were placed in the mail and 
        subsequently suffered from the inhalation of anthrax and thereafter 
        died;
Whereas 5 individuals in the United States died from exposure to anthrax during 
        the 2001 anthrax attack;
Whereas in 2002, the United States Postal Service facility located at 900 
        Brentwood Road, NE, Washington, DC, was designated as the ``Joseph 
        Curseen, Jr. and Thomas Morris, Jr. Processing and Distribution Center'' 
        by Public Law 107-225, introduced by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton 
        and passed unanimously by Congress; and
Whereas issuing a postage stamp to honor the sacrifices of these two Federal 
        workers is proper and fitting: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives 
that--
            (1) a postage stamp should be issued to honor Joseph 
        Curseen, Jr. and Thomas Morris, Jr., the postal workers who 
        died in the line of duty during the anthrax attack in the fall 
        of 2001; and
            (2) the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee should recommend 
        to the Postmaster General that such a stamp be issued.
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