HR 2170
· 119th Congress
· Armed Forces and National Security
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.
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Became Public Law No: 119-35.
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Sep 05, 2025
signed
Signed by President.
Sep 05, 2025
signed
Became Public Law No: 119-35.
Aug 25, 2025
sent
Presented to President.
Aug 08, 2025
floor
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Aug 02, 2025
committee
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Veterans' Affairs Committee
Aug 02, 2025
passed
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
Aug 02, 2025
passed
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5521: 1)
Jul 22, 2025
introduced
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Veterans' Affairs Committee
Jul 21, 2025
floor
Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
Jul 21, 2025
floor
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3489-3491: 1)
Jul 21, 2025
floor
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2170.
Jul 21, 2025
passed
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3489-3490)
Jul 21, 2025
passed
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3489-3490)
Jul 21, 2025
passed
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Apr 04, 2025
committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Health Subcommittee
Mar 18, 2025
introduced
Introduced in House
Mar 18, 2025
introduced
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Veterans' Affairs Committee
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Public Law
Sep 05, 2025
This act designates the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Toms River, New Jersey, as the Leonard G. “Bud” Lomell VA Clinic.
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Introduced in House
Mar 18, 2025
This bill designates the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Toms River, New Jersey, as the Leonard G. “Bud” Lomell VA Clinic.
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[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
-[H.R. 2170 Engrossed in House (EH)]
+[H.R. 2170 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]
-<DOC>
+H.R.2170
-119th CONGRESS
-1st Session
-H. R. 2170
+One Hundred Nineteenth Congress
-_______________________________________________________________________
+of the
-AN ACT
+United States of America
+
+AT THE FIRST SESSION
+
+Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
+the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-five
+
+An Act
To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient
clinic in Toms River, New Jersey, the Leonard G. 'Bud' Lomell, VA
@@ -17,85 +22,80 @@
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
-
SECTION 1. FINDINGS.
-
Congress finds the following:
(1) The Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic, a
state-of-the-art facility serving the region's largest veteran
-population, located at 1055 Hooper Avenue, recently opened in
-the Township of Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey, in the
-Fourth Congressional District.
-(2) 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.
-(3) Second Lieutenant Lomell was born in 1920, the adopted
-son of Scandinavian immigrant parents living in Brooklyn, New
-York, and his family eventually moved to Point Pleasant Beach,
-New Jersey.
-(4) After graduating from Tennessee Wesleyan College,
-Second Lieutenant Lomell was drafted into the Army, serving
-first with the 76th (Liberty Bell) Infantry Division. When the
-2nd Ranger Battalion was formed in April 1943, Leonard Lomell
-was invited to be the First Sergeant of D Company.
+population, located at 1055 Hooper Avenue, recently opened in the
+Township of Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey, in the Fourth
+Congressional District.
+(2) 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.
+(3) Second Lieutenant Lomell was born in 1920, the adopted son
+of Scandinavian immigrant parents living in Brooklyn, New York, and
+his family eventually moved to Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey.
+(4) After graduating from Tennessee Wesleyan College, Second
+Lieutenant Lomell was drafted into the Army, serving first with the
+76th (Liberty Bell) Infantry Division. When the 2nd Ranger
+Battalion was formed in April 1943, Leonard Lomell was invited to
+be the First Sergeant of D Company.
(5) On D-Day, June 6, 1944, First Sergeant Lomell's platoon
-landed at Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France, successfully scaling
-the cliffs, despite a withering German defensive barrage.
+landed at Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France, successfully scaling the
+cliffs, despite a withering German defensive barrage.
(6) Pointe du Hoc, a rugged 100-foot-high coastal promenade
-along the English Channel was located between the American
-landing beaches, Omaha and Utah. It was heavily defended by the
-Germans and the mission of Colonel James Earl Rudder's 225
-Rangers was to disable five 155-millimeter artillery guns,
-which could have rained artillery fire on the American forces
-landing on either beach, jeopardizing the invasion.
+along the English Channel was located between the American landing
+beaches, Omaha and Utah. It was heavily defended by the Germans and
+the mission of Colonel James Earl Rudder's 225 Rangers was to
+disable five 155-millimeter artillery guns, which could have rained
+artillery fire on the American forces landing on either beach,
+jeopardizing the invasion.
(7) Unknown to the American forces, the guns had been moved
-from the tip of the Pointe and hidden, pointed in the direction
-of Utah Beach, in an inland apple orchard nearly a mile from
-the coastal batteries.
+from the tip of the Pointe and hidden, pointed in the direction of
+Utah Beach, in an inland apple orchard nearly a mile from the
+coastal batteries.
(8) First Sergeant Lomell and another Ranger, Sergeant Jack
-Kuhn, found the guns undefended, and, with Kuhn providing
-cover, Lomell destroyed the weapons with thermite grenades and
-used his rifle butt to smash the sights of the guns.
-(9) First Sergeant Lomell subsequently received a
-battlefield promotion to Second Lieutenant, and was awarded
-some of the Army's highest honors, including the Distinguished
-Service Cross, Purple Heart, and Silver Star.
-(10) Renowned historian Steven Ambrose regarded First
-Sergeant Lomell's valiant acts along with General Eisenhower's
-decision to invade on June 6, 1944, as the most significant
-actions ensuring the Allied victory on D-Day.
+Kuhn, found the guns undefended, and, with Kuhn providing cover,
+Lomell destroyed the weapons with thermite grenades and used his
+rifle butt to smash the sights of the guns.
+(9) First Sergeant Lomell subsequently received a battlefield
+promotion to Second Lieutenant, and was awarded some of the Army's
+highest honors, including the Distinguished Service Cross, Purple
+Heart, and Silver Star.
+(10) Renowned historian Steven Ambrose regarded First Sergeant
+Lomell's valiant acts along with General Eisenhower's decision to
+invade on June 6, 1944, as the most significant actions ensuring
+the Allied victory on D-Day.
(11) Following World War II, Second Lieutenant Lomell was
-appointed as the First Director of the newly organized Ocean
-County Veteran's Service Bureau, serving from 1946 until 1948,
-before he attended law school on the G.I. Bill.
+appointed as the First Director of the newly organized Ocean County
+Veteran's Service Bureau, serving from 1946 until 1948, before he
+attended law school on the G.I. Bill.
(12) Leonard Lomell and his wife, Charlotte Ewart Lomell,
-settled their growing family in Toms River, where, in 1957,
-Leonard established his own law firm, which grew to become one
-of Ocean County's largest firms.
+settled their growing family in Toms River, where, in 1957, Leonard
+established his own law firm, which grew to become one of Ocean
+County's largest firms.
(13) Leonard Lomell was involved in numerous local civic,
business, and charitable organizations, including serving as
-president of the Ocean County Bar Association, a director of
-the First National Bank of Toms River, a member of the Dover
-Township Board of Education, and a co-founder of the Garden
-State Philharmonic. He was also National Commander of the
-Legion of Valor (1964-1965) and President of the Ranger
-Battalion Association of World War II (1967) and served on the
-French Committee of Pointe du Hoc.
+president of the Ocean County Bar Association, a director of the
+First National Bank of Toms River, a member of the Dover Township
+Board of Education, and a co-founder of the Garden State
+Philharmonic. He was also National Commander of the Legion of Valor
+(1964-1965) and President of the Ranger Battalion Association of
+World War II (1967) and served on the French Committee of Pointe du
+Hoc.
(14) Second Lieutenant Lomell is profiled in ``The Greatest
-Generation'', former NBC news Anchor Tom Brokaw's testament to
-the heroes of World War II, and ``Len Lomell: D-Day Hero'',
-Steven M. Gillon's entry in the American War Heroes Series.
+Generation'', former NBC news Anchor Tom Brokaw's testament to the
+heroes of World War II, and ``Len Lomell: D-Day Hero'', Steven M.
+Gillon's entry in the American War Heroes Series.
(15) As a decorated war hero, model citizen, and dedicated
husband and father, Second Lieutenant Lomell is exceedingly
-deserving of the posthumous honor of having a new and long-
-awaited Toms River-based Department of Veterans Affairs
-outpatient clinic named in his honor.
-
+deserving of the posthumous honor of having a new and long-awaited
+Toms River-based Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic
+named in his honor.
SEC. 2. NAME OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMUNITY-BASED
OUTPATIENT CLINIC, TOMS RIVER, NEW JERSEY.
-
The community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans
Affairs in Toms River, New Jersey, shall, after the date of the
enactment of this Act, be known and designated as the ``Leonard G.
@@ -104,21 +104,7 @@
shall be considered to be a reference to the Leonard G. ``Bud'' Lomell
VA Clinic.
-Passed the House of Representatives July 21, 2025.
+Speaker of the House of Representatives.
-Attest:
-
-Clerk.
-119th CONGRESS
-
-1st Session
-
-H. R. 2170
-
-_______________________________________________________________________
-
-AN ACT
-
-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.
+Vice President of the United States and
+President of the Senate.
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