A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 620 East Pecan Boulevard in McAllen, Texas, as the "Agent Raul H. Gonzalez Jr. Memorial Post Office".

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This bill simply renames a federal building. It does not expand federal power, restrict any rights, or impose any burden on individuals. It is fully constitutional.

• ✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
  Congress has authority under Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 (Postal Power) to establish and regulate post offices. Naming a postal facility is a routine exercise of that enumerated power.
• ✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
  The bill does not restrict speech, religion, press, assembly, petition, arms, quartering, search and seizure, self-incrimination, due process, takings, trial rights, or cruel and unusual punishment. No amendment is implicated.
• ✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
  The bill imposes no restriction on any person's person, property, speech, labor, or belief. It merely designates a name for a federal facility, which does not burden individual sovereignty.
• ✓ Passes · Decentralization
  The bill passes all four questions: an individual or family could not rename a federal building (it is a federal facility), but the action is purely symbolic and does not consolidate decision-making upward in any meaningful way. It does not violate the Tenth Amendment.
• ✓ Passes · Due process and takings
  The bill does not deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property; it does not bypass any hearing or notice; it does not take any property. No due process or takings issue arises.

Sources: Congress.gov: S 917 summary