Mr. Speaker, you will never hear me complain about having to come to washington to vote. After all, it is an honor to serve the people of this great nation and our constitutional obligation to be here present to vote on the issues facing america. So the question today, are the issues that need to be addressed in the United States Postal Service . There certainly are. We all know there are. After all the usps has been on the Government Accountabilitys highrisk list since the beginning of the Obamabiden Administration. The systematic issues are not nufmente they did not creep up in the last few weeks since the new postmaster has been in office. They have been here for a while. If we are trying to address issues, there is room for discussion. The late chairman Elijah Cummings and the how white house chief of staff mark meadows had a bill that had serious effort put into it. Tomorrow well have a hearing with the postmaster to discuss the build we are arguing today. The white house has offe
Postal service . There certainly are. We all know there are. After all the usps has been on the Government Accountabilitys highrisk list since the beginning of the Obamabiden Administration. The systematic issues are not nufmente they did not creep up in the last few weeks since the new postmaster has been in office. They have been here for a while. If we are trying to address issues, there is room for discussion. The late chairman Elijah Cummings and the how white house chief of staff mark meadows had a bill that had serious effort put into it. Tomorrow well have a hearing with the postmaster to discuss the build we are arguing today. The white house has offered 10 billion package, which the speaker has rejected. There are option it is we want to address the real issues. Todays not about a serious effort. Todays effort is yet another smokescreen. Another Conspiracy Theory forced on the American People to distract us from the real problems facing the American People. To distract from t
I also rise in strong support of the brave postal workers across this nation who are continuing to deliver the mail for the American People in the middle of a global pandemic. Pandemic. He Postal Service is the critical component of americas infrastructure. Lifeline of medication, supplies, and mail all americans everywhere they live, especially in this need. F earlier this year, the postal to help. Sked congress they asked us for 25 billion in assistance to help navigate through this crisis. Other ke all these industries did. Usinesses and entities who received federal funds from congress. This was not a democratic request. From the Postal Service, and it was supported unanimously governors. D of all of whom were appointed by trump. Nt in response to this urgent request, the house acted. Said yes. We acted swiftly to help the Postal Service. Voted to include 25 billion in the heroes act, and we passed on may 15. Unfortunately, the president agree, and the request has language wished f
We have seen it all this weekend. Wind, rain, lightning and listing heat. The heat is still causing a strain on the power grid. Fortunately the operator said there will not be a need for rolling blackouts tonight. As you can see, there are Power Outages in some areas. The orange dots represent outages of 500 or more pg e customers. The lightning and because of the heats been extended until tomorrow morning. Greg ligands will have the latest on those fires that started around those today. First, bill martin for the current conditions. We do have a chance of a thunderstorm. The red flag warning has been extended into the evening hours for possible Lightning Strikes. This was, i will not say unprecedented, but i havent seen a lightning hit like this. Not the number but the aerial distribution. For km, Lightning Strikes and then look at this. Hundreds of strikes. They ended up covering the entire bay area. Very unusual. This went on for five hours. We do see the storms, we even saw some at
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