Idaho post office renamed to honor Representative Maxine Bell
S. 24 — A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 154 First Avenue East in Jerome, Idaho, as the "Representative Maxine Bell Post Office". · Filed by Mike Crapo (R-ID) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jan 7, 2025 · Reported out
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What it does
This bill renames a post office in Jerome, Idaho, after Representative Maxine Bell. The facility at 154 First Avenue East will officially be called the 'Representative Maxine Bell Post Office,' and all federal references to it will be updated accordingly. No funding, operational changes, or policy effects are involved.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole function is to rename a federal post office facility in honor of a deceased or retired public servant. This is routine commemorative legislation with no policy, operational, or financial mechanism.
Who it affects
This is a commemorative naming with no direct cost or benefit to citizens. Post office operations remain unchanged. The naming honors a public servant, which is a routine civic practice that carries mild public-accountability value (memorializing service on the public record).
Named in the bill
United States Postal Service, Jerome, Idaho, Representative Maxine Bell, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Jan 7, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jan 7, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs”
- Aug 6, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $410,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 166 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Mike Crapo, the sponsor, reported $552,275 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- American Federation of Teachers — $410,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,364 characters) on Aug 20, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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