Mr. Speaker, the Committee on Rules may meet the week of June 20 to grant a rule that could limit the amendment process for floor consideration of H.R. 2021, the Jobs and Energy Permitting Act of 2011. Any Member wishing to offer an…

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, at this point, I would like to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Capps), a leader on these issues.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the proceedings during the former Members program be printed in the Congressional Record and that all Members and former Members who spoke during the proceedings have the privilege of revising and…

Today, I want to highlight a remarkable group of North Carolina students from Watauga High School in my district. These students recently competed and won third place in the National ProStart Invitational in Overland Park, Kansas, after…

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague from Massachusetts talking about right-wing radicals because I associate myself with George Washington, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson, who were right- wing radicals, along with the other…

But I also know--and I want to address this to Mr. Williams--that there are issues out there that we must confront.

Americans have a right to know that the money Washington takes from them is well spent.

So we need--as a Congress, we need to empower the Postmaster General to be able to make those decisions based on economic factors in order to reduce the size or the obligations of the Postal Service to stay in those.

You have to have the business plan on one side, and then you have to have the capital investment in order to implement that business plan.

In fact, we have to make some systemic changes.

Because where we are today as a country with the U.S. Postal Service is, after 230 years, it is still one of the most well-established, best infrastructures, going to 150 million homes a day.

If that service also includes the closing of Post Offices or retail facilities or mail processing centers because of a lack of capacity, would you not agree that is something that ought to be done?

For example, in your testimony when you talk about how it is not the taxpayers, it is the customers, it is the rate payers that are more affected by this, I think you and I will agree that for years the U.S. Postal Service has been…

I think service is important. I assume you are suggesting service to the customers need to be improved?

this investigation, as you well know, relies intensely on your testimony.

If we are going to assess it based on it being a business, then we have to look at the facilities that are out there that provide the service.

Americans deserve an efficient, effective government that works for them.

Our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers.