H.R. 5472 — Introduced in House

I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5472 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 15, 2014 Mr. Stockman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform A BILL To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service currently located at 16281 U.S. Highway 59 in Moscow, Texas, as the Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya Memorial Post Office. 1. Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya Memorial Post Office (a) Findings Congress finds as follows: (1) Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya, an American citizen of Russian extraction, was a Russian-American journalist who exposed numerous human rights violations committed by the Russian military in Chechnya, and was a harsh critic of Vladimir Putin. (2) In 2001, while investigating complaints of torture in the Chechen town of Khattuni, she was detained and beaten by Russian military officials. (3) In 2004, she published the book Putin’s Russia, which exposed many harsh police state tactics of the Putin regime. (4) In September 2004, she became severely ill after an assassination attempt using poisoned tea. (5) In 2006, she was shot to death in her apartment in Moscow, Russia. (b) Designation The facility of the United States Postal Service currently located at 16281 U.S. Highway 59 in Moscow, Texas, shall hereafter be known as the Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya Memorial Post Office. (c) References Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the facility referenced in subsection (b) shall be deemed to be a reference to the Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya Memorial Post Office.