I oppose this amendment because it is unnecessary and overly restrictive and I urge my colleagues to do the same.

I urge my colleagues to accept this amendment and I yield back the balance.

Simply put, missing service standards hurts those who rely on the Postal Service and is ultimately a death sentence for the struggling agency.

According to Pew Research, 91 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the Postal Service, making it the most beloved and popular Federal agency.

the withdraw of machines clearly would have an impact on volume of mail being sorted and thus, ultimately, delivered?

The Postal Service serves every household and business across this Nation every day, or at least it is supposed to.

We cannot allow this to continue.

When the mail doesn't arrive on time, it may well mean the difference between an open or shuttered business.

Thank you for your leadership on this issue, and hopefully we can all work together to bring that bill, which passed out of our committee on a bipartisan basis, to the floor soon.

We're going to work together as colleagues to solve these problems and to hopefully change the governance of the Postal Service.

When you shut down 30 percent of sorting machines in one state, it really affects all of our workers.

Let's be clear: This issue comes from the top down at the United States Postal Service.

DeJoy's actions have, I think, contributed significantly to the ability of Chicago--in deteriorating Chicago's post offices and mail deliveries in order to meet customers' needs.

When mail doesn't arrive on time, it may very well stand in the way of my constituents having food to eat.

175 of my Republican colleagues voted against it.

The Biden administration inherited endless crises from the Trump administration, I mean, everything from an insurrection at the Capitol to a pandemic.

We are back to the wild west in Texas.

what you have just described, to me, sounds like an over-regulated regime in Texas making it very, very difficult for a woman to access legal medical care with respect to abortion.

one of the most pivotal decisions that has affected in recent time our relations throughout this region was the, to me, catastrophic decision to renounce our own negotiated trade agreement, the TPP

I think it was a sad message that we sent to our friends, allies, and partners... to pull out when we did did not send a good message at all, strategically.

I think that is one of the obstacles that we would have to getting back in. First is getting our domestic house in order and building political will here.

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