Steve Lynch: “I rise in support of H.R. 22. This will be the first major postal reform bill to receive our consideration in 35 years.…”

“I rise in support of H.R. 22. This will be the first major postal reform bill to receive our consideration in 35 years. I would like to, obviously, credit the gentleman from Virginia (Chairman Tom Davis) and the gentleman from New York (Mr. McHugh), the subcommittee chairman, for their great work as well as the ranking member, the gentleman from California (Mr. Waxman), and the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Davis) for all of the great work they have done. But I would be remiss if I did not mention the number of other people who have worked so hard on this, namely, the postal employees themselves who have been very active in this whole process, including the leadership of the American Postal Workers Union, the National Letter Carriers Union, and the National Mail Handlers Union who have been active and committed to this whole process. All of us will remember in the days and weeks following September 11, we had a series of anthrax attacks conducted through the U.S. mail system. Tragically, among the victims of these attacks were included the lives of two of our postal workers, Joseph Curseen, Jr., and Thomas Morris, Jr., at the Brentwood facility in the D.C. area.…”