U.S. House honors former mayor

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill to rename a Bloomington post office in honor of former U.S. Rep. Frank McCloskey.\nThe House passed the bill without opposition on voice vote Wednesday.\nThe bill was introduced by U.S. Rep. Baron Hill, D-Ind., and co-sponsored by the rest of the Indiana congressional delegation.\nThe legislation would rename the Woodbridge Post Office on Bloomington's east side the Francis X. McCloskey Post Office Building. Indiana Sens. Evan Bayh and Dick Lugar have introduced a similar bill in the Senate.\nMcCloskey, who died Sunday of cancer at age 64, helped get the post office built while he served on the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee in the 1980s.\nThe former Bloomington mayor, a Democrat, represented southwestern Indiana's 8th District in Congress from 1983 to 1995.\nA public funeral service for McCloskey is scheduled for Nov. 15 in Bloomington.