Mark Meadows: “And rise in opposition to the bill. No one has invested more time than perhaps Mr. Connolly or myself on postal reform.…”

“And rise in opposition to the bill. No one has invested more time than perhaps Mr. Connolly or myself on postal reform. But I think it was Winston Churchill who said that no matter how beautiful the strategy, we must occasionally look at the results. And the results of this bill will do nothing to stop the post office from hemorrhaging money. As we look at this prefunding--and I would agree with the gentlewoman--part of our solution, part of the bipartisan solution in the previous Congress, was to look at this prefunding issue and to try to address it. But to do it as a standalone bill, Mr. Speaker, is certainly not what the doctor ordered. Because even with this, the Postal Service continues to lose money each and every day. I would say that if this was the bomb that solved their problem, it would have already been solved because they haven't been making the payments. What the American people need to understand is, they are wanting relief from a payment that they are not making, and it is going to make zero difference in terms of the viability of the Postal Service. Now, we can all agree that there need to be major reforms, but this particular bill, and the way that it is being put forth, would actually hurt the potential progress we have in addressing real reforms. With that, I sadly rise in opposition to this bill, and I reserve the balance of my time.”