HR 1461 · 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".

The record

Legislation· Dec 2025

HR 1461 Passed House — in Senate

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".

Names the Sewickley, Pennsylvania post office building after Mary Elizabeth 'Bettie' Cole.

Tradeoff

This is a ceremonial naming bill with no fiscal impact or policy tradeoffs.

What's in it

See official bill text

No measurable federal cost; estimated cost is between zero and $500,000 (negligible).

The negligible federal cost is just the administrative overhead to implement the name change on signage and internal systems—the bill imposes no new spending program or tax change.

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" · Dec 2025

Passed the House by on December 9, 2025 — sitting in the Senate.

House
Introduced
(Feb 21, 2025)
House
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform(Feb 21, 2025)
House
The committee voted to send it to the floor
Reported 38 - 2(Dec 2, 2025)
House
Passage of the bill
Passed by (Dec 9, 2025)
No individual votes were recorded.
Senate
Received from the House
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs(Dec 10, 2025)