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Thank you. I think its time for the Postal Service to act as a private business has to act in similar situations of constantly losing money without relying upon the taxpayer. At some point weve got to change. Mr. Chairman, i thank you for your indulgence. Thank the gentleman. Will recognize the gentleman from california for five minutes. Postmaster brennan, last october the u. S. Postal Inspection Service issued a release about mail theft. And it said that these crimes are increasing and that mail theft from collection boxes and customers mailboxes is a big problem. It also says most cases of mail theft from centralized mailbox units involve counterfeit master keys. So, two questions for you. One is when you talk about right sizing, are you reducing u. S. Postal Inspection Service numbers at all . And does that h ....
National museum of American History. It is wonderful to welcome you to our new floor that is looking at innovation and invention in america. To start with that, we have some modelsary pac10 and examples of early invention and technical invention. Even have apple one up here, which is quite extraordinary. He you will see as we walk you start to see all , these exhibitions that are focused on ways in which we have developed a new way of thinking. A new way here we have the value of money, which has the most extraordinary collection of gold and silver coins, paper. All of them are oriented in a way to help understand the role of money. We end up with the bitcoin. You can see over time, how we understand value, trade, exchange, as we go forward. Walk into part of the show where we have American Enterprise talking about the social and cultural history which is really your h ....
This hearing will get underway. My apologies for being tardy. Im running around a lot today but thank you all for your patience and welcome to todays hearing on the telephone Consumer Protection act. When passing tcpa 25 years ago congress sought a balanced approach that protects the privacy of individuals and permitted legitimate telemarketing practices. A as a result a number of telemarketing pract is have been significantly reduced or eliminates. For example companies have to maintain donotcall list and could not make solicitation calls before 8 00 a. M. Or after 9 00 p. M. But tcpa is showing its age and there are opportunities to build on the consumer benefits and ensuring consumers fully benefit from modern communications. Consumers should be able to take advantage of technology to help them fall victim to actors though those who ignore do not call requirements. I doubt there is a person in this room whos that not recei ....
Minutes. Our ongoing series spotlighting magazines continues today with the recent edition of Washington Monthly online. Steven rose our guest wrote this piece miss placed no stat gentleman for the good old days, are largely based on myth. Mr. Rose, so explain the myth that its based on. Sure. Theres two ways to look at it. Number one is the kind of rosecolored glasses in which we look at the past. As they say, things are worse today than they were in the past. So a lot of people evoke the 50s and the 60s as a time when somebody did this and everything was fine. In 1960 the overall poverty rate was 22 . The elderly poverty rate was 35 . While women made half of what men did and blacks made half of what whites did. So it wasnt so good old days. The comparable figures today is the overall poverty rate is 14 to 15 , the elderly poverty rate is 11 , and men women make 75 of what men make and blacks make 75 of whites. So the whole ....
Fbi of a ku klux klan informant by the name of thomas wrote. He described how he participated in beatings of civil rights activists during the freedom writers movement. Freedom riders movement. Did you inform the fbi about planned violence prior to that incident . Gary i gave the fbi information roughly three weeks before. And what did you tell them . Gary i stated i had been contacted by a Birmingham City detective, who wanted me to meet with a highranking officer of the Birmingham Police department. You mean the Birmingham Police men set up the beating of the freedom riders, and you told the fbi that . Gary correct. And were they beaten . Very badly, yes. Minutes withsed 15 absolutely no intervention from any Police Officer. The information was passed on to ....