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“CONGRESSMAN WESLEY ``WES'' WATKINS POST OFFICE” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the Senate section on pages S11300 on Nov. 9, 2009.
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CONGRESSMAN WESLEY ``WES'' WATKINS POST OFFICE
The bill (H.R. 1713) to name the South Central Agricultural Research Laboratory of the Department of Agriculture in Lane, Oklahoma, and the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 310 North Perry Street in Bennington, Oklahoma, in honor of former Congressman Wesley
``Wes'' Watkins was ordered to a third reading, read the third time, and passed.
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