Military fiveday letter delivery service. This is 40 minutes. I have a statement that i want to give. Im going to just yield to her friends from the house, chairman issa, try ranking democrat on the elisha cummings. Especially in the last months of last year, had a chance to bear down and try to get to we got in the red sun in terms of final solution weve made real progress. And when to forego comments initially and ask our colleagues to just go ahead and pick it up from there. Again, thank you for joining us. Thank you. Chairman carper, Ranking Member coburn, you are new to your positions, even though you are from assisting the body. Mr. Cummings and i came close to the last congress to what we thought was a bipartisan and bicameral deal. We start off this congress with a view that with you as team members and coaches about with and as a bipartisan bicameral problem and bipartisan bicameral solution, we believe we can get there. Clearly as you can meet today, the subject of fiveday de
Yes, definitely. We will stay involved. As i mentioned in my opening statement, Postal Services on a high riskless. Do a keep it on the high riskless control problems have been solved. Once legislation is passed, we wont take it off until implementation is achieved as the social service. We will stay monitoring the situation providing regular route towards. Based on metrics as well as what youve established. Thats exactly right. We took them off too early before. Omicron and make a choice. At number 10 anomic tennis. All of questions for the next panel. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I went to thank you for doggedly working on postreformed over the last two years, but especially last year and u. S. Senator lieberman, senator collins and senator brown has supposed reform bill. A lot of people said you couldnt do that come us to thank you for your hard work. Been assuming that mr. Donahoe, you would agree if the house had taken that the senate bill were passed a bill similar to that
continue their engagement were they ve after all been the pioneers of this and the years to come us in the changing environment in which the country assumption. so obvious and many many other much more plentiful questions i ll have to be addressed, we hope, to be one of the settings in which that might occur. thank you very much fory. it is washington, your way. host: we re back with cliff guffey, the president of the american postal workers union, here to talk about the future of the post office. let s begin with how many union workers to represent. guest: we represent approximately two and a 20,000. 220,000. we represent the clerks that word for windows, that sort the mail, the drivers, the mechanics, and the maintenance employees. host: there is a lot of debate about the future of the postal service. congressman darrell issa has legislation to reform it. senator john mccain has introduced a companion legislation similar to that legislation. are you willing to make
gal, a discussion of u.s. trade initiatives in afghanistan and central asia. this 90 minute event is hosted by the central asia caucasus institute and a train to study program, which is affiliated with the school of advanced international studies at johns hopkins university. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, ladies and shot him in. my name is fred starr chairman of the caucus institute. the program today is cosponsored by the center for strategic and international studies and i am pleased to introduce our co-convener and friend from the sis, anger questions. let me also note that there are various books and studies on today s topics, some of them free. and these are available out right after the program. on the 20th of july in chennai, india, secretary of state clinton had this day. she said, i want to be very clear, the united states is committed to afghanistan and to the region. we will be there. yes, we are beginning to withdraw combat troops and transfer respo
your candidates tried to appeal to the hispanic vote? we have a fourth line this morning for hispanic voters let me show you the wall street journal this morning. both parties vying for support from an ethnic group that have voted democratic in the past. but say they say this remember, the democrats are holding their convention in north carolina as well. we want to get your take. what is your candidate s appeal to the hispanic voter? we want to hear from hispanic voters as well. let me show you the graph the wall street journal put together based on the census data. we talked about florida but in colorado they saw the number of hispanic voters jump by 41,000. in missouri, 17,000. and in nevada, 44,000. new mexico, 36,000. north carolina, 54,000. in va, 33,000 more hispanic voters in that state then in 2008 in virginia. a little more from the wall street journal and then the wall street journal and then we will take your calls mike, independent from woodbri