Yesterday, at the height of Speaker Boehner’s attempt to convince his fellow Republicans to approve his debt ceiling plan, the House instead voted on a bill sponsored by Rep. Aaron Schock:

House leaders have delayed a scheduled vote on the debt ceiling plan offered by House Speaker John A. Boehner, a possible acknowledgement that Republicans lacked the votes to ensure passage.

The postponement was announced just minutes before the planned 6 p.m. vote. The House instead moved to consider a far less controversial measure — to rename a post office in Peoria, Ill.

That bill is H.R. 2548, a bill to “designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6310 North University Street in Peoria, Illinois, as the ‘Charles “Chip” Lawrence Chan Post Office Building.'” Chan was a 23-year-old Peoria native “employed as a currency trader at Cantor Fitzgerald, working on the 105th floor of the North Tower” when terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center. He had graduated from Richwoods High School in 1995 and earned a degree in economics from the University of Illinois in 2000 before moving to New York. A memorial service in October 2001 was attended by 850 mourners.

The bill was approved by the House last night by a voice vote.

Hat tip: Peoria Pundit