United States Postal Service Financial Relief Act Of 2009

Floor Speech

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Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, first of all, I want to thank the chairman for yielding me this time. I also want to commend him and the ranking member and the members of the subcommittee for the great work that they have done on this bill.

I am very pleased to be a cosponsor, an original cosponsor of H.R. 22. I am basically pleased to have been so because for a number of years we have known that the postal service was operating in a different environment. We have seen the tremendous increase in e-commerce. We have seen the utilization of other means and methods of communicating, and we have always known we were going to have to do something.

The something we have done does not cost the taxpayers any additional money. As Delegate Norton said, it is not a bailout. It is a sane, rational approach to dealing with the problem, and I want to commend the postal service for their efforts to operate in an environment of diminishing returns.

So, again, I commend the chairman and the ranking member. I strongly support this legislation.

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