Providing for Consideration of H.R. 22, Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act
PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 22, POSTAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND ENHANCEMENT ACT -- (House of Representatives - July 26, 2005)
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Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Hastings) for yielding me this time. I also want to thank him and the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Sessions) for the presentation of this rule.
I want to commend the chairman of the Committee on Government Reform, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Davis), and the ranking member, the gentleman from California (Mr. Waxman), for the tremendous leadership that they have displayed in shaping this bipartisan legislation.
I also want to commend the gentleman from New York (Mr. McHugh), who is known as ``Postal Reform'' in our committee, because he has worked on this issue for such a long period of time.
Many of us recognize that postal issues are not considered to be the most exotic business that will come before this House, but if you are waiting for an important document that does not come at the time you were hoping to receive it, or maybe it was a letter from a relative, from your mother or your father or from your child, and it is not there, or it was an admissions letter to college or university and you are anticipating its arrival, and it does not come, then you begin to realize how important the Postal Service is.
I want to commend the thousands of men and women who work every day to make sure that these channels of communication are still open. Imagine being able to get a letter from anyplace, first class, in the United States of America for 37 cents. That is no easy feat.
And so I commend all of those who have made sure that these channels of communication have been kept open. I commend all of those members of the committee who have labored, and all of the stakeholders. Shaping this legislation was not the easiest thing in the world to do, but I have been told that when men and women of goodwill come together with a basic recognition of the need to be in sync, that you can work out solutions to any problems that have existed.
That is what has taken place in the Committee on Government Reform. Again, I commend the tremendous leadership that we have gotten from the chairman and ranking member. I know that there are amendments that are desirable, but I am going to resist them, and urge that they be resisted, and urge passage of this landmark legislation that seeks to reform the postal system and postal operations.
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