Representative be waived onto their Committee Without objection so ordered. Welcome to our hearing on recent developments and i now recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then the Ranking Member. Does the chairwoman wish to have an Opening Statement . I will recognize her with your permission our colleague will also have an Opening Statement. The Postal Service is the crown jewel of the federal i government serving every household every day 630,000 brave individuals at every district and according to pew research 91 percent of americans have a favorable view of the Postal Service. Leaps and bounds above that of any other federal entity. During the coronavirus pandemic the Postal Service value is greater than ever as a formal component and serving as a linchpin nations responsee pandemic. Found 2020 harris poll that the Postal Service ranked as the most Important Company to americans during the pandemic because it is a constant in our lives. That ings companies it outranks compan
Mail, Committee Members asked witnesses about mr. Dejoys ownership of a company that contracted its services to the usps. The chair would ask without objection that ms. Debbie wassermanschultz i got it right here. Ms. Cooper and representative mary gay scanlon beor waived on the committee. Without objection, it is so ordered. I want to welcome everyone to s our hearings on recent developments regarding the Postal Service and i now recognize myself for an Opening Statement and i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement. I have agreed is the chairwoman on . Does the chairwoman wish to have an Opening Statement . Ill recognize here with your permission after myself. O our colleague ms. Lawrence is going to issue have an Opening Statement. I will recognize if somebodyv on your side wants to have additional okay. That would be fine. The cr you justow let me know. Okay. Theit s Postal Service is the crowned jewel of our federal government. It emplo serves every household b
Person. You will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you. When they are speaking in what is known in webex as active speaker view. A timer is visible in the room directly in front of. For members appearing remotely i know youre familiar with webex by now let me remind you of a few points. First, you will be able to see each person speaking during the hearing, whether they are in person or remote. If you have your webex set to active speaker view. If you have any questions can about this pleas, Contact Committee staff. Secondly, we have a timer that should be visible on the screen when you are in active speaker with thumbnail view. Members who wish to pin the timetory their screens Contact Committee staff for assistance. Third, im not even sure what that means, but i said it. Third, the house rules require that we see you so please always have your cameras turned on if you want to be an active participant in this hearing. Fourth, members are appe
Something timely literally this morning we heard about the hacking of twitter trump has gone to facebook to get his message out. Facebook has had a lot of criticism over the years i wrote a column recently on why Mark Zuckerberg has not fact check the president. Why it is this relationship between facebook and the white house and free speech . I will throw a big question to launch off. Thank you for doing this. Its good to connect with you again. Like a lot of things you cant just pull out one problem of facebook from its dna and origins and in the case of trum trump, obviously he was not a factor in the early days in the dorm room but by the time the Trump Campaign got rolling in 2015, this became an issue for facebook with the messy way it dealt with controversial content and the same way in 2015 when trump posted stuff that was anti muslim and it actually did violate the companys community standards. But facebook decided not to mess with that. Even though it may have violated the st
105 in iowa, that is a lot for us. Just a couple of hours ago i was on a call with iowa state leaders who are at the state Emergency Operations center. Let me say that again. Emergency operations center, an e. O. C. You just dont set those up for fun, folks. You set them up when your state is in crisis. They gave us a picture of whats going on with our workers and our Small Businesses on the ground in iowa. Within three hours the state received over 11,000 calls for Unemployment Insurance. 2,000 of them are selfemployed. They wont qualify for Unemployment Insurance. You know what would relieve their hurt . This package, phase three. Meanwhile my democratic colleagues are holding this bill up that would actually deliver the relief that is necessary for these workers that i just mentioned for things that have nothing to do with a crisis. Senate democrats are stalling funding for hospitals and Small Businesses until they get to jam through their Green New Deal. Mr. President , you tell me