Phillips: “May his name grace the Post Office in the town he loved, and the town that loved him back, for generations to come.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill authored by Rep. Dean Phillips (MN-03) to rename the Wayzata Post Office in honor of former Minnesota Rep. Jim Ramstad. The legislation was cosponsored by the entire Minnesota Delegation and now moves to the Senate, where Sen. Amy Klobuchar (MN) leads the companion proposal.
Phillips, who represents the same district Ramstad once did, offered a tribute to the late statesman before the vote. Watch here.
Remarks as prepared:
Madam speaker, I rise today in support of my bill, H.R. 772, to designate the Post Office in—and I’ll say it slowly—Wayzata, Minnesota, on the shores of Lake Minnetonka, as the Jim Ramstad Post Office.
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