On the recordAugust 22, 2020
I thank the distinguished chair for yielding and for her tremendous leadership. The post office is as American as motherhood, baseball, and apple pie. It is one of the only entities actually mentioned in the United States Constitution. It has been around for hundreds of years. The first Postmaster General was Dr. Ben Franklin. It is part of the heart and soul of this country, and the attacks on the post office by the Trump administration are shameful. The American people deserve a Postal Service that delivers Social Security checks to senior citizens, delivers medicine to disabled veterans, delivers unemployment insurance checks to displaced Americans, and, yes, delivers ballots to those who choose to vote by mail in the midst of a deadly pandemic, because no American should ever have to choose between their health, safety, and well-being on the one hand and the constitutional right to vote on the other. This is why we need a fully functional Postal Service. Don't mess with USPS.
