Congress honors fallen firefighter with post office naming
S. 3630 — A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 46164 Westlake Drive in Sterling, Virginia, as the "Firefighter Trevor Brown Post Office Building". · Filed by Mark Warner (D-VA) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jan 14, 2026 · Reported out
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What it does
This bill renames a U.S. Postal Service facility in Sterling, Virginia after Firefighter Trevor Brown. The post office at 46164 Westlake Drive will officially be called the 'Firefighter Trevor Brown Post Office Building,' and all federal references to that location will use the new name.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole function is to rename a federal postal facility in honor of a firefighter. This is a standard commemorative act with no regulatory, financial, or policy mechanism.
Who it affects
This is a commemorative naming with no negative civic consequences. It honors a firefighter, likely one who died or was injured in service, which is a standard and appropriate use of federal naming authority. No citizens are harmed, no rights are restricted, and no public resources are diverted.
Named in the bill
United States Postal Service, Sterling, Virginia, Firefighter Trevor Brown
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Jan 14, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jan 14, 2026 — 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 2 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $30,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 3 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.
Mark Warner, the sponsor, reported $2,246,650 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- The Dual Eligible Coalition — $30,000 on 2 filings
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 15, 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 (1,417 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 Dec 2025 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 15, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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