IV 

114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 490 

Honoring the lives, work, and sacrifice of Joseph Curseen, Jr., and Thomas 

Morris, Jr., the two United States Postal Service employees and Washington, DC, natives who died as a result of their contact with anthrax 

while working at the United States Postal Facility located at 900 Brentwood Road, NE, Washington, DC, during the anthrax attack in the 

fall of 2001, United States Postal Service employees, who have continued 

to work diligently in service to the people of the United States notwithstanding the anthrax attacks, as well as the three other Americans 

who died and the 17 who became ill in the attacks. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 23, 2015 

Ms. NORTON submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 

RESOLUTION 

Honoring the lives, work, and sacrifice of Joseph Curseen, 

Jr., and Thomas Morris, Jr., the two United States 

Postal Service employees and Washington, DC, natives 

who died as a result of their contact with anthrax while 

working at the United States Postal Facility located 

at 900 Brentwood Road, NE, Washington, DC, during 

the anthrax attack in the fall of 2001, United States 

Postal Service employees, who have continued to work 

diligently in service to the people of the United States 

notwithstanding the anthrax attacks, as well as the three 


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other Americans who died and the 17 who became ill 

in the attacks. 

Whereas the founders of the United States, recognizing the 

importance of a national system of mail to the new country, gave Congress the constitutional authority ‘‘To establish post offices and post roads’’; 

Whereas employees of the United States Postal Service provide indispensable public service and honorably represent 

the United States on a daily basis; 

Whereas despite the other terrorist attacks in Federal facilities throughout the United States, including the anthrax 

attacks more than 10 years ago, Postal Service employees 

continue to risk their lives daily to serve the people of the 

United States; 

Whereas Joseph P. Curseen, Jr., and Thomas L. Morris, Jr., 

both natives of Washington, DC, diligently and admirably 

served the Nation for decades as employees of the United 

States Postal Service; 

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 United States citizens died from exposure to anthrax during the 2001 anthrax attacks and 17 became ill 

in the worst biological attack in the Nation’s history; and 

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 


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Morris, Jr. Processing and Distribution Center’’ by Public Law 107–225: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives honors 

2 the lives and work of Joseph Curseen, Jr., Thomas Morris, 

3 Jr., the three Americans who died, and the 17 who became 

4 ill in the attacks, and acknowledges the sacrifice that all 

5 Postal Service employees make on behalf of the United 

6 States on a daily basis. 

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