Volume 76
Public Law 87–453
To prescribe names for the several House of Representatives office buildings.
Approved May 21, 1962
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To prescribe names for the several House of Representatives office buildings.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That—
House of Representatives office buildings.
Designations.
the House of Representatives office building constructed under authority of the Act of March 3, 1903 (32 Stat. 1083, 1113), at a time when the Honorable Joseph Gurney Cannon of Illinois was serving as Speaker of the House of Representatives, is hereby designated, and shall be known, as the “Cannon House Office Building”; and
the House of Representatives office building constructed under the authority of the Act of January 10, 1929 (45 Stat. 1071), at a time when the Honorable Nicholas Longworth of Ohio was serving as Speaker of the House of Representatives, is hereby designated, and shall be known, as the “Longworth House Office Building”; and
the House of Representatives office building being constructed under the authority of the Additional House Office Building Act of 1955 (69 Stat. 41), the construction of which was
begun while the Honorable Sam Rayburn of Texas was serving as Speaker of the House of Representatives, is hereby designated, and shall be known, as the “Rayburn House Office Building”.
Sec. 2.
Any law, rule, regulation, document, or record of the United States in which reference is made to any building to which the first section of this Joint Resolution applies shall be held to refer to such building under and by the name prescribed for such building by such section.
Approved May 21, 1962.