Still playing the name game with Navy and Marine Corps
By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes
WASHINGTON: Rep. Walter Jones never expected changing the Department of Navy’s name would be a decade-long fight. But each year since 2001 - the first year he proposed adding the Marine Corps to the official title - the North Carolina Republican has found himself on the House floor making an impassioned plea for the simple three-word change. And each year the measure has failed in the Senate. "I don’t understand why anyone would be opposed," he said. "It shouldn’t have taken more than three or four seconds to fix this."
On Tuesday, the House passed the latest iteration of his proposal. The renaming bill had 426 co-sponsors, a record for legislation ever to get through the chamber.

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