Instituted. This is two and a half hours. The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chairman is authorized to declare a recess at any time. The chair asks that ms. Debbie ms. Scanlan,ultz, else mr. Cooper, ms. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and representative mary gay scanlon, b waved onto the committee. Without objection, it is so ordered. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement, then i will record as the Ranking Member. I have agreed is the chairwoman on . Chairwoman wish to have an Opening Statement . I will recognize her, with your after. Ion, mr. Hice, lawrence, i will recognize. If somebody else on your side wants to have additional. The Postal Service is the crown jewel of our federal government. It serves every household and business every day. 630,000 brief individuals who live in every congressional district. According to pew research, 91 of americans have a favorable view of the Postal Service. Leaps and bounds above that of any other federal entity. During
Recess at any time. The chair asks that ms. Debbie ms. Scanlan,ultz, else mr. Cooper, ms. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and representative mary gay scanlon, b waved onto the committee. Without objection, it is so ordered. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement, then i will record as the Ranking Member. I have agreed is the chairwoman on . Chairwoman wish to have an Opening Statement . I will recognize her, with your after. Ion, mr. Hice, lawrence, i will recognize. If somebody else on your side wants to have additional. The Postal Service is the crown jewel of our federal government. It serves every household and business every day. 630,000 brief individuals who live in every congressional district. According to pew research, 91 of americans have a favorable view of the Postal Service. Leaps and bounds above that of any other federal entity. During the coronavirus pandemic, Services Value to this nation is greater than ever, serving as a linchpin to our nations response to the pan
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Host we will talk about the United States Postal Service. What do we know, right now, about the health and financial impacts that coronavirus has had on the United States Postal Service staff and revenue. Revenue . Guest we do not know nearly enough. We have a very clear picture of the Postal Service before coronavirus, and it was an agency struggling because mail volume has dropped 30 , and the agency has difficulty maintaining operating costs, but then coronavirus hit, and mail volume plunged as much as 30 already, because most of what gets sent is sent by businesses, and so much of america, so many of them are closed down. Host so, has the Postal Service ever been in a situation like they are in now . Have we ever seen this . Is this business as normal or have they always been in trouble like this . Guest 10 years ago the situation changed for the Postal Service. Fundamentally, because the mail volume stopped growing. You look at the data on mail volume over the course of the last 1
Partisan issue. Plenty of democrats understand that the president s action has made it significantly harder for us to get off on the right foot in the new year on a number of issues that we already agree on, by and large. The junior senator from north dakota said the immigration order quote could poison any hope of compromise or bipartisanship in the new senate before its even started. Well, i agree with the sentiment. I hope shes wrong and i hope we can prove that wrong by saying that were not going to give up and were not going to let what the president does determine what we do. We have to do our job and we have to function and then were going to have to work with the president hopefully to try to move the country forward in a number of these areas. So i hope we can find a way to stop the president from acting on his own and to recommit ourselves to the rule of law and the particularl particularly the constitution and get about the job of addressing our countrys biggest challenges.