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111TH CONGRESS REPORT " ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2d Session 111–414 

CHANEY, GOODMAN, SCHWERNER FEDERAL BUILDING 

FEBRUARY 22, 2010.—Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed 

Mr. OBERSTAR, from the Committee on Transportation and 

Infrastructure, submitted the following 

R E P O R T 

[To accompany H.R. 3562] 

[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] 

The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to whom 

was referred the bill (H.R. 3562) to designate the Federal building 

under construction at 1220 Echelon Parkway in Jackson, Mississippi, as the ‘‘Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner Federal Building’’, 

having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. 

The amendments are as follows: 

Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: 

SECTION 1. BUILDING DESIGNATION. 

The Administrator of General Services shall ensure that the federally occupied 

building located at 1220 Echelon Parkway in Jackson, Mississippi, is known and 

designated as the ‘‘James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner Federal Building’’. 

SEC. 2. REFERENCES. 

With respect to the period in which the building referred to in section 1 is federally occupied, any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other 

record of the United States to that building shall be deemed to be a reference to 

the ‘‘James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner Federal Building’’. 

Amend the title so as to read: 

A bill to designate the federally occupied building located at 1220 Echelon Parkway in Jackson, Mississippi, as the ‘‘James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael 

Schwerner Federal Building’’. 

PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION

H.R. 3562, as amended, designates the federally occupied building located at 1220 Echelon Parkway in Jackson, Mississippi, as 


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the ‘‘James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner 

Federal Building’’. 

BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION

The bill designates the federally occupied building located at 

1220 Echelon Parkway in Jackson, Mississippi, as the ‘‘James 

Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner Federal Building’’. 

James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were 

civil rights activists who were lynched in the summer of 1964 while 

attempting to organize and to register African American voters in 

Mississippi. On June 21, 1964, the three men drove to Longdale, 

Mississippi, to investigate the site of a burned church in Neshoba 

County. They were arrested by the Neshoba County police as they 

were leaving the site and were held by the police for several hours. 

They were later released only to be rearrested shortly thereafter. 

After the second arrest, Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price turned the three 

civil rights activists over to local members of the Ku Klux Klan. On 

August 4, 1964, their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam 

near Philadelphia, Mississippi. 

These events sparked a great public uproar and led President 

Lyndon B. Johnson to direct Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 

Director J. Edgar Hoover to open the Jackson Division of the FBI. 

The FBI flooded the state with agents in an attempt to solve the 

crime. The FBI eventually arrested 18 suspects on Federal conspiracy charges in the murder of these civil rights activists. 

These young men were courageous in the face of the adversity 

during the push for civil rights in Mississippi during the summer 

of 1964. It is both fitting and proper that we honor their sacrifices 

with the designation of the Jackson, Mississippi FBI field office as 

the ‘‘James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner 

Federal Building’’. 

SUMMARY OF THE LEGISLATION

Section 1. Designation 

Section 1 designates the federally occupied building located at 

1220 Echelon Parkway in Jackson, Mississippi, as the ‘‘James 

Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner Federal Building’’. 

Sec. 2. References 

Section 2 states that during the period that the building referred 

to in section 1 is federally occupied, any reference in a law, map, 

regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States 

to that building shall be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘James 

Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner Federal Building’’. 

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY AND COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION

On September 14, 2009, Representative Bennie Thompson introduced H.R. 3562. This bill has not been introduced in a previous 

Congress. On January 27, 2010, the Committee on Transportation 

and Infrastructure met in open session to consider H.R. 3562. The 

Committee adopted an amendment in the nature of a substitute to 


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the bill by voice vote. The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure ordered H.R. 3562, as amended, reported favorably to the 

House by voice vote with a quorum present. 

RECORD VOTES

Clause 3(b) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives requires each committee report to include the total number of 

votes cast for and against on each recorded vote on a motion to report and on any amendment offered to the measure or matter, and 

the names of those members voting for and against. There were no 

recorded votes taken in connection with consideration of H.R. 3562, 

or ordering the bill, as amended, reported. A motion to order H.R. 

3562, as amended, reported favorably to the House was agreed to 

by voice vote with a quorum present. 

COMMITTEE OVERSIGHT FINDINGS

With respect to the requirements of clause 3(c)(1) of rule XIII of 

the Rules of the House of Representatives, the Committee’s oversight findings and recommendations are reflected in this report. 

COST OF LEGISLATION

Clause 3(c)(2) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives does not apply where a cost estimate and comparison prepared by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 has been timely 

submitted prior to the filing of the report and is included in the report. Such a cost estimate is included in this report. 

COMPLIANCE WITH HOUSE RULE XIII

1. With respect to the requirement of clause 3(c)(2) of rule XIII 

of the Rules of the House of Representatives, and section 308(a) of 

the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Committee references 

the report of the Congressional Budget Office included in the report. 

2. With respect to the requirement of clause 3(c)(4) of rule XIII 

of the Rules of the House of Representatives, the performance goals 

and objective of this legislation are to designate the federally occupied building located at 1220 Echelon Parkway in Jackson, Mississippi, as the ‘‘James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael 

Schwerner Federal Building’’. 

3. With respect to the requirement of clause 3(c)(3) of rule XIII 

of the Rules of the House of Representatives and section 402 of the 

Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Committee has received the 

enclosed cost estimate for H.R. 3562, as amended, from the Director of the Congressional Budget Office: 

U.S. CONGRESS, 

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE, 

Washington, DC, January 28, 2010. 

Hon. JAMES L. OBERSTAR, 

Chairman, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 

House of Representatives, Washington, DC. 

DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: The Congressional Budget Office has reviewed H.R. 3562, a bill to designate the federally occupied buildVerDate Nov 24 2008 05:54 Feb 23, 2010 Jkt 089006 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6659 Sfmt 6602 E:\HR\OC\HR414.XXX HR414

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ing located at 1220 Echelon Parkway in Jackson, Mississippi, as 

the ‘‘James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner 

Federal Building,’’ as ordered reported by the House Committee on 

Transportation and Infrastructure on January 27, 2010. 

CBO estimates that enactment of this legislation would have no 

significant impact on the federal budget and would not affect direct 

spending or revenues. The bill contains no intergovernmental or 

private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would impose no costs on state, local, or tribal governments. If you wish further details on this estimate, we will be 

pleased to provide them. The CBO staff contact is Matthew 

Pickford. 

Sincerely, 

DOUGLAS W. ELMENDORF. 

COMPLIANCE WITH HOUSE RULE XXI

Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of 

Representatives, the Committee is required to include a list of congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits, 

as defined in clause 9(e), 9(f), and 9(g) of rule XXI of the Rules of 

the House of Representatives. H.R. 3562, as amended, does not 

contain any earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits under clause 9(e), 9(f), or 9(g) of rule XXI. 

CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY STATEMENT

Pursuant to clause 3(d)(1) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House 

of Representatives, committee reports on a bill or joint resolution 

of a public character shall include a statement citing the specific 

powers granted to the Congress in the Constitution to enact the 

measure. The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 

finds that Congress has the authority to enact this measure pursuant to its powers granted under article I, section 8 of the Constitution. 

FEDERAL MANDATES STATEMENT

The Committee adopts as its own the estimate of Federal mandates prepared by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office 

pursuant to section 423 of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act 

(P.L. 104–4). 

PREEMPTION CLARIFICATION

Section 423 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 requires the 

report of any Committee on a bill or joint resolution to include a 

statement on the extent to which the bill or joint resolution is intended to preempt state, local, or tribal law. The Committee states 

that H.R. 3562, as amended, does not preempt any state, local, or 

tribal law. 

ADVISORY COMMITTEE STATEMENT

No advisory committees within the meaning of section 5(b) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act are created by this legislation. 


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APPLICABILITY TO THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

The Committee finds that the legislation does not relate to the 

terms and conditions of employment or access to public services or 

accommodations within the meaning of section 102(b)(3) of the Congressional Accountability Act (P.L. 104–1). 

CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW MADE BY THE BILL, AS REPORTED

H.R. 3562, as amended, makes no changes in existing law. 

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