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On the recordAugust 22, 2020
If there is a bill that more accurately reflects the failure of Democratic leadership for my first 2 years in Congress, I don't know what it is. I know that because I came to Congress knowing of the problems with the Postal Service. I am the only Republican on the Oversight and Reform Committee who cosponsored the Democrats' bill to remove the prefunding of their pensions. I have been working on this, been curious about it, and have cared about it for a very long time. I supported former Chairman Cummings' and Mark Meadows' bipartisan solution for the Postal Service because I represent a rural State, and privatization is bad for my constituents. But do you know how important this has been to the Oversight and Reform Committee? Our last hearing on the Postal Service was in April of 2019. But somehow, we have decided that because the previous Postmaster General who was appointed in 2015 and didn't resign until June and did something unique in this town--made sure just about everybody hated her. But now we are saying this all blew up last week. But it didn't. I know it didn't because you can Google postal problems in any jurisdiction from one end of this country to the other and you know they have existed before. But instead we will come to the floor, debate a bill offered and sponsored by the chair of the committee of jurisdiction, we will vote on it today, and then we will have a hearing on Monday about the bill.…
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Kelly Armstrong
Republican · North Dakota

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