George washington in march of 1776. Today, pursuant to senate bill 309 we will present a gold medal to members of the Civil Air Patrol whose valor and dedication saved countless lives during world war ii. The Civil Air Patrol was organized some six days before the bombing of pearl harbor. Its members flew more than 24 million miles on coastal patrol. They summoned help for ships and survivors in distress, they spotted enemy submarines, dropped bombs, depth charges and some 64 americans died during these operations. Those who lived have quite the stories to tell. Many of them are with us today. Please join me in welcoming these american heros to our capitol. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the presentation of the colors by the United States Armed Forces Color Guard and the singing of the National Anthem by the Brass Quintet and the retiring of the colors. Color halt. Present arms. Please remain standing as the chaplain of the United States senate, dr. Barry black, gi
The rev rand, john a. Boehner. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon and welcome to the u. S. Capitol. Thank you for being here to continue a great tradition. One that dates back before our country was even a country. The congressional gold medal represents the highest expression of the peoples appreciation for distinguished achievements and contributions. The first was George Washington and today, we will present a gold medal to members of the Civil Air Patrol with valor and dedication saved countless lives in world war ii. The Civil Air Patrol was organized some six days before the bombing of pearl harbor. Its members flew more than 24 million miles on coastal patrol. They summoned help for ships and survivors in distress, they spotted enemy submarines, dropped bombs, depth charges and some 64 americans died during these operations. Those who lived have quite the stories to tell. Many of them are with us today. Please join me in welcoming these american heros to our capitol. [ applaus
To the new communications and transportation capabilities that weve developed. Given the shifting culture and those expectations for speed and ontime delivery, im reluctant. You have to look at the economics of all of this and the trade offs and costs, but i hate to see the Postal Service give up one, two, three. Thank you. Mr. Miller. Mr. Chairman two things. One, as i recollect, the rational for this change in Service Standards was developed after i left. I dont know the details of it. I hesitate to answer because without having time to analyze the data. Second, there is a trade off obviously. You cant do all things for all people. You have to make some choices here. Service standards should be an input into the question of plant and logistical rationalization it seems to me. I just dont have i dont have my hands on the information necessary i understand. Everything else equal. I think theres something nice about having as you characterize, a one, two, three kind of standard. You wou
The centers changed the standard of delivery and gone from one, two, three, days to modified one so au so if youre in the same met oe metropolitan area. Thats modified one. If were outside the area, you might get it. You may not. Modified one, two, three. I think the Postal Service would like to go to two, three. Two day even in the same metropolitan area. It would be one but two would be the expectation and three. In terms of whats appropriate for us, im not comfortable with the Postal Service saying this is how many Mail Processing centers we should have. Some people say the more appropriate thing for us to do maybe with the involvement of the Regulatory Commission is to consider whether or not modified one, two, three days of service is appropriate. One, two, three is better or two, three is just fine. I would welcome any comments that you all have in it regard. Ms. Kennedy. I picked on mr. Miller all afternoon. Maybe i should come to you. My first thought is if we have declining fi
Developing countries respond to that at the summit . I know you met with people on the side. Yeah. There are a lot of things that i saw being discussed that relate to the president s plan. We had and most of the meetings i went to were with industry, so it was really fun. Large industries as well as small. We talked about the 111d proposal and the broad context about its sort of gamechanging nature, that its a really strong signal for the u. S. The president s presence there was clearly another strong signal. I also had discussions with oil and gas on methane commitments. There are some great opportunities to work internationally and we have the Largest Companies participating in those discussions through our climate and what is it called . Climate and clean air coalition, which is an International Sort of collaboration with dozens of countries and business sector. We talked a little bit about hfcs. There were big commitments on those as well. There was a lot of discussion over the dev