(KAIR)--The push to rename the Atchison Post Office in honor of Amelia Earhart advances.

According to a press release from the office of United States Senator Pat Roberts, of Kansas, the U.S. Senate approved the Amelia Earhart U.S. Post Office Act Wednesday night.

Introduced in the Senate by Roberts, the legislation was also introduced in the U.S. House by his fellow Republican from Kansas, Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins, in November of last year.

The legislation now goes to the House for approval before being signed into law.

Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, was born in Atchison on July 24, 1897.

Each July, Atchison holds a weekend festival in her honor.