Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa Post Office Building Designation Act
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The Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa Post Office Building Designation Act (Pub.L. 109-253, 120 Stat. 656) designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 Avenida RL Rodriguez in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, as the Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa Post Office Building. It was enacted as Public Law 109-253 on August 1, 2006.
José Celso Barbosa (1857 – 1921) was a physician, sociologist, and politician born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, who founded the Puerto Rican Republican Party. He is widely regarded as the father of the "Statehood for Puerto Rico" movement.
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[edit] Legislative history
The Act was introduced by the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the United States House of Representatives Luis Fortuño on July 26, 2005. It was approved by the House of Representatives on March 28, 2006 and the Senate on July 20, 2006. The President signed the bill on August 1, 2006.
[edit] Wikipedia in the Congressional Record
The "Background" section of the bill, which was updated on March 27, 2006, contains a brief biography of Barbosa which was obtained from the July 30, 2005 version of the Jose Celso Barbosa article written by Tony Santiago for Wikipedia under the username User:Marine 69-71.[1]This may have been the first time that material from Wikipedia has been deemed important enough to have been included in a U.S. bill
[edit] Notes
- ^ Jose Celso Barbosa, via permanent link to Wikipedia article.
[edit] External links
- Passage of the Bill in the Senate, as cited in the Congressional Record
- Text of the Bill, via GovTrack
- Public Law 109-253 Text of the Act, via the Library of Congress
