President follansbee no. Not yet. Commissioner okay. Thank you. Clerk okay. Agenda item three is the approval with possible modifications of the meetings set forth below. This is an action item. President follansbee so id like to open up the discussion to commissioners for modifications, corrections, submissions to the meetingen minutes which weve seen draft form march 11, 2021. Commissioner i think i sent a typo. That was the only thing i found. President follansbee thank you. Commissioner i move that the minutes be adopted with any edits that have been forwarded. Commissioner second. Commissioner second. President follansbee so moved and seconded. Id like to open this up to Public Comment. Clerk thank you, president follansbee. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda. Each speaker will be allowed three minutes to comment in length unless the board president deems new Public Comment time limits during the meeting. All Public Comments are to be made on the agenda
Representative be waived onto their Committee Without objection so ordered. Welcome to our hearing on recent developments and i now recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then the Ranking Member. Does the chairwoman wish to have an Opening Statement . I will recognize her with your permission our colleague will also have an Opening Statement. The Postal Service is the crown jewel of the federal i government serving every household every day 630,000 brave individuals at every district and according to pew research 91 percent of americans have a favorable view of the Postal Service. Leaps and bounds above that of any other federal entity. During the coronavirus pandemic the Postal Service value is greater than ever as a formal component and serving as a linchpin nations responsee pandemic. Found 2020 harris poll that the Postal Service ranked as the most Important Company to americans during the pandemic because it is a constant in our lives. That ings companies it outranks compan
Mail, Committee Members asked witnesses about mr. Dejoys ownership of a company that contracted its services to the usps. The chair would ask without objection that ms. Debbie wassermanschultz i got it right here. Ms. Cooper and representative mary gay scanlon beor waived on the committee. Without objection, it is so ordered. I want to welcome everyone to s our hearings on recent developments regarding the Postal Service and i now recognize myself for an Opening Statement and i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement. I have agreed is the chairwoman on . Does the chairwoman wish to have an Opening Statement . Ill recognize here with your permission after myself. O our colleague ms. Lawrence is going to issue have an Opening Statement. I will recognize if somebodyv on your side wants to have additional okay. That would be fine. The cr you justow let me know. Okay. Theit s Postal Service is the crowned jewel of our federal government. It emplo serves every household b
A discussion of military and civilian National Service programs, from the Brookings Institution, this is just over an hour. 30 seconds. 30 seconds was particularly effective. It is my happy duty to introduce and moderate the second panel. I will begin by introducing myself briefly. I am bill gault, senior fellow in the government studies program at brookings, delighted to be a small cog in the Service Share alliance. And two people in particular, mel sawhill conceding the stand working tirelessly for six months and also john allen, for letting his vast appearance and events moral authority to our enterprise this morning and i think it is a sign that brookings is spiritually aligned with the National Service movement. Let me introduce the question this way. If National Service is the answer, what is the question . And we have heard and i think will hear three very different kinds of answers to that question. It is useful to keep them secret. The first test to do with service as an avenu
With more. Governor desantis speaking a few minutes ago and yankee town. None of the local reporters there asked desantis about his snub of President Biden yesterday. Governor desantis described the damage. Some people lost their entire homes. Some of the homes just washed away that were right there on the water. Others had four or 5 feet of water. They are not livable right now. It takes a lot of time. White House Press Secretary said there was no indication that desantis would not be there to greet the president. He may have had other reasons but he did help us plan this. We saw with fema and decided where we should go. Where there would be the least disruption. Im very pleased, the guy, we dont agree very much at all. The former governor now republican senator rick scott who played the role of welcoming committee. [inaudible] and then how fast you improve through fema, the republic assistance. Governor desantis met some criticism for not meeting with biden. Perhaps that is what the