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Section 1 · Sec. 1 ·

What this chapter is about

This part lists what Congress found. It tells the story of a war hero. His name was Bud Lomell. Congress says a new clinic for veterans should carry his name.

2 proposals indexed from this chapter.

The community wants the clinic named for Leonard G. Lomell

The document says “should”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 1 in the PDF
What the document says

“The local community, including veterans, believe that this facility deserves to be named in honor of Second Lieutenant Leonard G. ``Bud'' Lomell, a long time Toms River and Ocean County resident, who served courageously and heroically during World War II.”

To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Toms River, New Jersey, the Leonard G. 'Bud' Lomell, VA Clinic, and for other purposes, Sec. 1

The second of the section's fifteen findings. Congress records a belief it attributes to the local community, including veterans, that the clinic deserves to carry Lomell's name, and identifies him as a Second Lieutenant, a long time resident of Toms River and Ocean County, and a World War II veteran. The finding before it places the facility at 1055 Hooper Avenue in the Township of Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey, in the Fourth Congressional District, and says it recently opened. Neither finding names the clinic: the designation is made by section 2.

What the document actually says

“The local community, including veterans, believe that this facility deserves to be named in honor of Second Lieutenant Leonard G. ``Bud'' Lomell, a long time Toms River and Ocean County resident, who served courageously and heroically during World War II.”

To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Toms River, New Jersey, the Leonard G. 'Bud' Lomell, VA Clinic, and for other purposes, Sec. 1
That sentence, in plain words

People who live near the clinic want it named for a man called Bud Lomell. Veterans there want that too. He lived in the area. He fought in World War II.

What this is about

This is a reason, not a rule. It does not give the clinic a name. Part 2 of the law does that. Congress is saying why it acted.

No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.

Congress finds Lomell deserving of the honor

The document says “should”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 1 in the PDF
What the document says

“As a decorated war hero, model citizen, and dedicated husband and father, Second Lieutenant Lomell is exceedingly deserving of the posthumous honor”

To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Toms River, New Jersey, the Leonard G. 'Bud' Lomell, VA Clinic, and for other purposes, Sec. 1

The last of the section's fifteen findings, and the one that states its conclusion. The finding runs on to say what the honor is: having the new Toms River clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs named for him. The quotation stops short of that clause because the printer broke a word across a line there. The word posthumous is the section's own.

What the document actually says

“As a decorated war hero, model citizen, and dedicated husband and father, Second Lieutenant Lomell is exceedingly deserving of the posthumous honor”

To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Toms River, New Jersey, the Leonard G. 'Bud' Lomell, VA Clinic, and for other purposes, Sec. 1
That sentence, in plain words

Congress says this man earned the honor. He was a war hero. He was a good neighbor. He was a good husband and father.

What this is about

The honor is having the new clinic named for him. He is not alive to see it. The law calls that a posthumous honor.

No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.

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What This Page Covers, and What It Leaves Out

The two of the section's fifteen findings that bear on what the Act does: that the local community wants the clinic named for Leonard G. Lomell, and that Congress finds him deserving of the honor.

The other thirteen findings, which place the clinic and recite Lomell's life and war service. They record what Congress says about a person rather than direct anybody, so the section summary describes them and the site does not restate them as its own account of his life.

A findings section states reasons. It renames nothing and requires nothing of anybody, and section 2 is the operative section of this Act. What is recorded here is what Congress stated, not what the site has checked against any other source.