The United States Senate wrote a special message to say thank you and goodbye to a man named James Ralph Sasser, who did important jobs helping people in Tennessee and in the whole country, like being a senator and an ambassador. They also decided to send this message to his family and to take a break in his honor.

In Knoxville, Tennessee, there is a post office, and this bill wants to change its name to honor a person named Reverend Harold Middlebrook. So, whenever people talk about or write the name of this post office, they'll use the new name.

The U.S. Senate made a special day on May 22, 2024, to celebrate 205 years since Memphis, Tennessee, was founded. They want to remember how important Memphis has been for cool music, like the blues, and for big stories and events that affected how people live and work in the United States.