Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, ``The Postal Service is fully capable of delivering the Nation's election mail securely and on time.'' That was the testimony of the Postmaster General. But they don't trust the Postmaster General. The post office has taken care of over 400 million pieces of mail every day. But they don't trust the Postmaster General. That is intriguing to me, because they are going to give the Postmaster General an additional $25 billion. They don't trust him, yet they are going to give him $25 billion when he already has $15 billion cash on hand and a $10 billion line of credit. We don't trust this guy, but we are going to give him $25 billion extra. But moreover, this is a crisis. We want reforms. We want changes. We don't trust the current Postmaster General, so what we are going to do is we are going to proscribe any kind of efforts to make the post office, Postal Service, work better. We are going to stop that. Not only are we going to stop that, we are going to give a new cause of action to trial lawyers against the USPS. That is what is going on in this bill, and I find that intriguing. It reminds me of a Eugene Ionesco play, Luigi Pirandello. We are talking theater of the absurd here. That is what we are talking about. Democrats call the failures of USPS a crisis, but they are going to prohibit reforms or changes. Think of the irony of that.…”