Funding for the u. S. Postal service. Members of the House Rules Committee met on friday to consider the bill called the delivering for america act introduced by oversight and reform chair carolyn maloney. It provides 25 billion in funding to the Postal Service and returns Service Levels to those at the beginning of 2020. The rules committee voted to send this legislation to the house floor for debate. The rules committee will come to order. We are here today because this president has thrown our democracy further into chaos. We are just weeks away from early voting in some states. The Record Number of ballots are expected to be asked by mail. Are expected to be cast by mail. Sorting machines are disappearing. Delivery has been slowed. The postalle, service is still badly in need of Additional Resources. The house acted to provide more but nothinghs ago has been done. , this isy this clearly an assault on democracy. These actions call into question whether legal ballots will be counted
Idea, into your bill, out of your bill, appreciate that. I am curious if there have been any hearings about that. Now and as you stated, it is out of the bill. Lets go forward. Have there been any hearings on this legislation at all . Know, there were no hearings on the postmaster generals actions were he did not perform any of us and told us he wasnt stopping. Our constituents were saying they were being hurt. Can i respond . I would like to say i will give you more. Congressman tom and moran and Susan Collins, all republicans sent their own letters expressing concerns with the postmaster generals actions. I ask unanimous consent to place them into the record and for example congressman from montana stated the postmaster general on august 6th, 2020, delaying mail service is unacceptable as the country continues to combat covid19. It keeps our communities connected. Montanans defendant reliable access to receive prescription drugs, Online Purchases and financial documents. He also quot
[pleage of allegiance] ladies and gentlemen please were not Electronic Devices that they tend to interfere equivalent in the room. I like to call roll call please do the was loftus, here. Turman, here. Marshall, here. Dejesus, here. Rath mazzucco, here. Melara is excused ong hing, here. A quorum is present. Also here is interim chief of police 20 chaplain and joyce hicks good evening and welcome to our january 11 Police Commissioner meeting. As you might know this will be my last meeting as Police Commissioner of talk more about that in my report but we will go head and i make some switches to the agenda. Sgt. We are going back going to have item 3 after in the place of item 2. Colleagues, i note you are aware that unfortunately this last week the department lost an officer who passed away suddenly while on duty. Officer stuart moeller. So we will conclude adjourn this meeting in his memory and ill share more details of his life it is a goldmedal valor winner and really an extraordinar
Public. And the community. So i would like to say though that we have always known that your heart was in the right place and that in the last three months or so we have begun to realize that you are removing in terms of your mind and your perceptions especially about the poa. We are very pleased that the commission as a whole and you spearheading it a push back strongly against the poa. We are very happy that the lawsuit is being joined with bigger by the commissioned by the City Attorney as far as them try to stop the use of force policy but we are also very very pleased that you we believe were one of the people instrumental in getting an outside sheet. We think thats a very important issue for the commission. Going forward we very much like to see the new president and Vice President wherever it may be if the decision is made tonight, to be a little bit more open as far as welcoming the community a wholehearted way into the process because i think we are your allies we are doing ve
I make some switches to the agenda. Sgt. We are going back going to have item 3 after in the place of item 2. Colleagues, i note you are aware that unfortunately this last week the department lost an officer who passed away suddenly while on duty. Officer stuart moeller. So we will conclude adjourn this meeting in his memory and ill share more details of his life it is a goldmedal valor winner and really an extraordinary officer and its a big loss to the department for everyone at the airport. We will talk about his life and conclude this meeting is his memory. With that sgt. Please call the parse line item item 1 teaser report this item is to love the chief of police to report on recent Police Department activities including major events and weekly crime trends and to make announcements. Update from the professional Standards Bureau in regards to collaborative review status and implementation of high priority recommendations. Presentation of the safe streets for all Quarterly Report t