Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, the Democrats talked about a slight delay in mail delivery the last several weeks. Well, of course. Would you want to deliver mail in Portland today, cities that have been under siege for 90-some days? I bet there are delays in Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York. I bet that is where the delays are. In fact, how do you deliver mail to a CHOP zone, to a CHAZ zone? How do you do that? They won't let them in. I mean, come on. We know the facts here. The facts are the post office has more money today than they had this time last year. They got a $14 billion cash reserve. They got a $10 billion line of credit we gave them in the CARES Act. And oh, the Postmaster General is moving some sorting machines and removing some mail collection boxes, the same thing every Postmaster General has always done. In fact, between 2011 and 2016, the Obama-Biden administration removed 12,000 mail collection boxes. Oh, my goodness. And it is happening again. We are moving some boxes, and somehow, that is a reason to give $25 billion to the Postal Service and create all this ``conspiracy theory''--not my words; The Wall Street Journal called it--that the Democrats are doing. What is really going on here? If you really wanted to focus on some concerns the post office has, we have a bipartisan bill that the late Chairman Cummings and Mark Meadows worked on.…”