Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Congratulations on the award, i think you maybe you should get the award after all. We have another problem, myther. [ applause ] con garagexd ÷ulagss. When youre in a moment like this, a lot of thoughts flood through your mind after seeing that wonderful, wonderful tribute. All of the people who throughout my career have helped me, have worked with me, have become good friends, in addition to great colleagues no one person can do this alone. And there are just so many names you saw a lot of them in that video and there are hundreds more in this room and not with us tonight. The one thing that has always struck me about every piece of this and itsshow quickly your colleagues come together with you and solve problems. Willie is truly remarkable to see what this industry doc3 especially in the background when things have to get done. It doesnt really matter what the situation is, it could be something as sudden as theu announcement about Osama B
They were lean, i would certainly give the u. S. Postal service pretty good grades for that. They have undertaken an enormous effort to become smaller and more lean. Smart, efficient, the Postal Service is embarking down that road. The third is they are entrepreneurial and they are diversified, which the u. S. Postal service is not. They are saying those are the three key essential ingredients to survive in todays world as a Postal Service. I think one of the keys to staying out of trouble, if we do begin to enter the area of diversification, is to enable, not to compete, with commerce. We certainly have many ways to do that. As far as who would do this, i agree and understand that we have a traditional workforce that has been narrowly focused on mail and parcels in the past, but the Postal Service has the longest tradition of all the federal departments and probably within the world of creating effective partnerships with the private sector. First of all, were the long poll in the ten
Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen. Please turn your attention to the large screen for a funny video. Thank you. Are they trying to lose . Im not saying you are a terrible person, but i would rather have lunch with nancy pelosi then you. Boehner is number one on the list of people i would like to punch in the face. Bernie sanders looks like he is been tried to start the flux capacitor into his delorean for the last couple of years. Why, why with somebody say that . Kevin mccarthy really can i go again . Kevin mccarthy really needs to work on the whole can i say that one more time . Nancy was a looks like a cup of orange sherbet on cspan. Speaker boehner looks like an angry oompah loompah. I presume he writes his constituents with promises of chocolate and got stoppers. Whatever the hell that means. Kevin mccarthy really knows to work you suck as a senator. I am not a senator. Kevin mccarthy really needs to work on that whole talking thing. What are you talking about . Yo boehne
Me. Appreciate it. Captioning performed by vitac we have some more thank yous. I want to thank our planner, Ivan Goldberg who made all this happen, also the great allison jafy of the great d. C. Improv. Those of you who heard the reception band, thats is madam organs band. You may have noticed on your tables mip cards. Those cards get you free into adams morgan. I want to thank cnn, my capitol hill colleagues who dealt with me dealing with this dinner and who could not be better friends and colleagues. Im so honored to work with you. Its such a privilege. Thank you to my friends, megan, megan and kristen and to my husband jason, you make everything better. Now to all of you, i have probably the deepest thanks, it has been an incredible honor. I would never have imagined reporting at the capital much less standing here with some of the greatest reporters in the world and we will continue fighting for access at the u. S. Capitol because we sure could use it. Finally, thank you of course
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