Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I rise today in opposition to H.R. 8015 and the manufactured crisis my Democratic colleagues have created regarding the U.S. Postal Service. For the past week, the American people have been told they cannot trust the Postal Service to do their job and that Republicans, along with President Trump, are trying to undermine the agency. That could not be further from the truth. The Postal Service has more than enough funding to operate for the next calendar year and has not even acted upon the $10 billion loan the Treasury offered back in July. The sad truth is that the Postal Service has been financially unsustainable and without reform for over a decade, and the bill we are voting on today will do nothing, absolutely nothing, to improve the shortfalls with this agency. We should, instead, be working together to address certain problems we have while being conscious of the taxpayer dollars that have been used for bailouts over the years. Madam Speaker, I have a rural district in Texas, District 25. We rely upon the Postal Service to fulfill services that my constituents would otherwise go without. I am an advocate for improving this agency, and we should dedicate time to do just that, but there is an actual crisis among us that should demand our immediate attention. In the car business, you can't charge the sticker price if you don't have a vehicle to deliver, and you don't sell used cars that won't start. We are not delivering results today.…”