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Postal Service Reform Act of 2021

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 8, 2022
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, I thank the chair for yielding, and I want to thank both Mrs. Maloney, Congresswoman Maloney from New York, the chair of the committee, and Mr. Comer from Kentucky.

There is nobody covering this right now. There aren't a lot of Members on the floor. This will pass in a bipartisan fashion. But this is a piece of legislation on one of the most important agencies of government, the most important services to the American people, keeping them in touch, getting them goods and services and prescription drugs that they need, being able to pay their bills.

This bill is a very important bill. The interest in it in terms of the public is belied by the fact that it is bipartisan and that, therefore, it is assumed to happen.

But I tell you, Madam Speaker, this is decades in the making. This bill has been debated--not this bill, but the reforms that this bill achieves, have been debated for decades.

As the former chair of the Treasury Postal Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee, I know full well how difficult this process has been, and it doesn't need me to say anything more about the specifics of the bill, other than to thank Chair Maloney. She has been tenacious. She has been focused, and she has been indefatigable in this effort.

Madam Speaker, I want say that this would not have been done without Mr. Comer, because it is easy to demagogue one part of the issue or some other part of the issue. But the gentleman working together with Mrs. Maloney has made this happen, and America will be better. The Postal Service will be better. Postal workers will be better. And the American community that utilizes and relies on the Postal Service will have greater security and greater service.

So Madam Speaker, I thank Mrs. Maloney and Mr. Comer.

I thank all of those who worked on this bill in the committee, and I urge its overwhelming passage on a bipartisan basis.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

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