August 22, 2020 - Issue: Vol. 166, No. 149 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 2nd Session

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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE

  (Ms. PLASKETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. PLASKETT. Madam Speaker, first, I thank the Postal workers across 
this Nation who work so tirelessly to ensure we receive our mail in a 
timely fashion and are now doing it under tremendous difficulty. Almost 
every business, from the largest corporation to the smallest hometown 
operation, relies on the Postal Service.
  But for those businesses, those families--medicine, food, and goods 
are in jeopardy, not from a foreign adversary and not from war, but 
from attack within our borders, from those in charge, from the 
Postmaster General.
  Why?
  What is the primary purpose?
  It is to subvert an election.
  Today and Monday we will combat that attack. We will give the funding 
and the procedures necessary to restore and support the U.S. Post 
Office.
  We have also responded to the unanimous request of the Trump-
appointed Postal Board of Governors for $25 billion in much-needed 
emergency operational relief.
  For over 200 years, neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night 
has stayed these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed 
rounds. Let it not be on our watch that this legacy ends.

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