Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD). (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

While D.C. residents know Congressman Andy Harris best as a foe of marijuana decriminalization and self determination for the District, he now has another exciting distinction—one of 9 members of the House of Representatives to vote against naming a post office for poet Maya Angelou.

“Congressman Harris voted against the Maya Angelou post office naming because she was a communist sympathizer. His parents escaped communism and he feels that he cannot vote to name a post office in the United States in honor of someone who supported the communist Castro revolution in Cuba,” Shelby Hodgkins, a spokesperson for Harris, told NBC News.

Angelou has won the Presidential Medal of Arts, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and countless other awards for her poetry, music, film, and activism. After her death in 2014, the U.S. Postal Service issued a (misquoted) stamp in her honor.

Even as Congress continues to break records for its lack of productivity, naming post offices seems to be one thing that the legislative body still accomplishes—so far this legislative cycle, it has renamed more than 40 buildings, according to the Huffington Post. Mere moments before the Maya Angelou measure, NBC points out that the House unanimously voted to rename a California post office “Medal of Honor.”

Harris’ stand against Maya Angelou isn’t his only controversial position of late. He recently became the first person in Congress to endorse Dr. Ben Carson for president, many months after the candidate’s rise and then fall in the polls.

DCMJ activists—some of whom have dubbed the congressman Poopy Monkey Baby—have been in Harris’ district to rally voters around one of his primary opponents, former Maryland House of Delegates member Michael Smigiel.

Despite Harris’ opposition, the measure to rename the Winston-Salem, NC post office still overwhelmingly passed with 371 votes. As Angelou wrote in “Still I Rise,” one of her most iconic poems, “You may write me down in history / With your bitter, twisted lies / You may tread me in the very dirt / But still, like dust, I’ll rise.”