Idea, into your bill, out of your bill, appreciate that. I am curious if there have been any hearings about that. Now and as you stated, it is out of the bill. Lets go forward. Have there been any hearings on this legislation at all . Know, there were no hearings on the postmaster generals actions were he did not perform any of us and told us he wasnt stopping. Our constituents were saying they were being hurt. Can i respond . I would like to say i will give you more. Congressman tom and moran and Susan Collins, all republicans sent their own letters expressing concerns with the postmaster generals actions. I ask unanimous consent to place them into the record and for example congressman from montana stated the postmaster general on august 6th, 2020, delaying mail service is unacceptable as the country continues to combat covid19. It keeps our communities connected. Montanans defendant reliable access to receive prescription drugs, Online Purchases and financial documents. He also quoted opposing male stating and i quote, i know there needs to be reforms, they need to be cost stated, that is fine but they cannot compromise the delivery efficient delivery through rural missouri,. What have you mentioned the joy in the statement before the senate today said he is not going to give us the criteria or information that he used that moved him to make these decisions nor was it to give any type of plan where he is going forward, that is a quote that i heard right now so i would like to put this out to go further. In the secret with the democrats, this is not true at all, the democrats loved it and i had the language of my bill and it more than three months ago on the heroes act which included the 25 billion in the bill, those before us in the exact language of delivery for america and unfortunately the president and leader mcconnell have used this court and funding and returning to the standards that were in place before the postmaster general made these drastic changes and he never talk to anyone, he just did it, we have to act to get them to stop, we asked him to stop and he would not. These previous standards have to ensure Timely Delivery for decades, they have developed over years of public input, consultation, with congress and oversight of the appropriate bodies it is the postmaster general who is not following his order, he is making his moves in secret without adequate, full tatian from congress, the board of governors or the postal regulatory information. All my bill does is say stop because he would not stop and it was destructive actions to the middle of a pandemic that is claiming hundreds of thousands of american lives. I will say many postal workers have been ive been told there is 40000 postal workers who have been struck with covid and had to leave work and have not been able to work because they have been sick as an essential worker on the front lines delivering mail and asking peoples concern. All they do is say stop, leave works, republicans on this bill as well as multiple stakeholders, the bill was introduced two weeks ago, all of you have copies of it, its been available to everybody online and unfortunately the postmaster generals actions and delays have caused demand action now. I have never seen this body, our Congress Called in for an emergency meeting like this before, it is the cost of Postal Service of an essential service which too many people, life and death, getting the mail, getting their medicine, their bills, their checks, helping them deduct their lives, america is under quarantine, most of america is depending their whole lifeline out of their apartments of the Postal Service. I yield back. I have a lot to get off my chest. I have a question and i want to fit to both of you. Has there been a hearing on your bill. Thats what i asked, yes, sir no . We are having a hearing on monday. The information has been out for three months. [inaudible] is a postmaster general. I need to have you speak in your microphone a little better because its hard for you to hear. The quality pgh thank you, mr. Chair. Think very much i think you for bringing onto my attention. I know, we do a lot of that around here. Second question, over 75 days from the election, the post office has 16 billion on hand and has a 10 million line of credit sent to todd since may who hasnt needed access probably because theres been more a confusion of cash that nobody again, anticipated but thats a good thing. Not about thing. Do we have sufficient resources to handle to whats going to participate in the next 75 days . Are you asking me. Im asking you and mr. Coleman, do we have money on hand to deal with things that we do next year but im curious about what your opinion is and what mr. Cromers opinion is. The board of governors that is appointed by a republican process had unanimously voted for the 25 billion to make up for the lost to duke covid and other functioning, in fact they voted for 75 billion, they requested 75 billion along with 25 billion for really maintenance and improvements. I actually favor additional money from the post office, thats not the question im asking, do they have enough money because we had to have a hearing on this bill, and a plan on how to spell spend the 25 billion, do they have sufficient money in your opinion to operate now, as i understand it the Postal Office board of governors request is longterm, its not like we have an immediate crisis, we cant handle our responsibilities between now and the election without additional money, im asking you if that is the case. I would say the crisis, we need to get the funding there. That is fine, you answered my question. I would like to ask mr. Cromer if they think they have sufficient money to handle their obligations between now and the election of next year. That is a great question and the answer is yes, they have sufficient money, the postmaster is taking place right now, the post office has 15 billion cash on hand as we speak, they also have 10 billion that we all voted for and they cares act that they have not tapped into. They have 25 billion cash on hand and the president in the postmaster has said they can handle the volume, went went through and its not that big of a percentage of normal daily volume in the Postal Service. They had the capacity, a couple of other things if i may, the senator haley and their statement that the chairwoman referenced saying ten days after they started, i just wonder if the chairwoman has any idea of the post office in missouri were enough, i would say the answer to that is no because these are the sorts of things that you find out in a good thorough Committee Hearing. Thank you very much and i appreciate it, chairman i yield back. Think very much. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. When i came to congress 27 years ago, those of you that were not here may you be surprised to know that there was a post office committee, they basically saw the chair of the committee and of course being a junior kid on the block at that time, i was assigned to the post office committee. And i found an enjoyable experience but one thing. All 27 years that i am here, the post office has been attacked by members of the other side, reform have been put forward, there are few have lynchs experience with the post office, he has 17 members of his family that have worked for the post office, i worked one christmas at the post office and a reason for the reason that in all those 27 years, deficiencies have occurred at the post office and there was a protracted period of time and steve, you back me up on this were 50 billion was owed to the post office and i have no recollection that that money was ever put in and largely comes about because republicans want a buster union and that is their prerogative, the same time it is a place in addition to the service that they render for, it is a place where a lot of veterans work, today and for years. And we need to be mindful of that, like some of you i was coming from the doctors this morning in listening to the radio and i heard the hearing of the postmaster general and i stand to be corrected but i think i heard him say that some of the actions that have been taken were done by the previous postmaster. In addition in dealing with one of the senators who asked him to have his plan ready by sunday night, he said he could not and would not make it available. His plan on going forward. Listen, all of us know something went wrong in the last two months as it pertains to mail in absentee voting home balloting. And a lot of this is raised because the president s actions, you go around and you criticize people, he criticize goodyear in their stock went down 4 . You know, the gentleman in the white house needs to be very cautious that his actions have consequences. Whether the postmaster put this plan into place or not i went to a Distribution Center to a local post office and their backlog is for 5 days. I live in a community of 55 above, even though i most of their ages but in my community, we dont have doortodoor delivery, what happens is we have a congregate area where our postal boxes are, i got them up there two days ago, three people who are nice to me and in the last month, the mail has been slow coming in. And if that went forward, then we would have an election problem and quite frankly, let me put it out there, i think the president wants to say this was a rigged election. I think hes going to say that even knowing that the results would be unfavorable to him in some respect as least as part of the popular vote is concerned. Let me end by saying what really, really got to me, i dont know about you all. I saw at the Distribution Center of Mail Processing, i dont know technology, i had not been inside the Distribution Center in a decade, i did not know anything about the mail process until i saw on television, i learned that it cost a considerable amount of money into processes 32000 pieces of mail, i would ask President Trump, mr. Cromer, my good friend mr. Cole and anyone else that is on this call, if the processing machine as it was working in the places where it was removed could process 52000 pieces of mail, how on earth do you expect that theyre going to be able to process that amount of mail, but if we do have a large number of people that are using mailin ballots, or before holidays come the gentleman at the Distribution Center said to me there is no way that they wont have a backlog. The supervisors of the election in a variety of states have made adjustments, they may or may not be good enough, one final thing and i will say this particularly to mr. Cromer, the complaint of the regular order, mr. Water all who cannot respond, im told on the call today and i have spent a lot of time talking about regular order as ab mr. Cole and other democrats. But there comes times when it becomes necessary when actions are being taken that effect our constituents in effect something is important to me that we have to undertake to do things. The reason it was done this way for the saturday boat was to accommodate the democratic and republican convention, we all know that we have scheduling difficulties, were in the final days of appropriation process but one thing that i need to make clear is we have passed a lot of legislation that people may agree or disagree upon but in my considered judgment, it is wrong for senator mcconnell as the majority leader of the senate, not to put these matters on the floor, and the peoples will be the dictating term, i thank you all, i apologize. Thank you, i may not have been planning to speak today but i cant resist it. And do you often come together in august to put together things that are common concern and he pointed out the Postal Service is a common concern and we lost being called home and we lost mr. Meadows being held in the white house. If those two gentlemen can demonstrate partnership, clearly we know partnership is available but there does not have to be much listening to this particular hearing to understand we are not focused on the partnership issues today and were focused on a host of other things, Susan Collins letter has been referenced as an advocate and if you read the closing of her letter, the postmaster general, you have committed to making sure that your changes are improving, not diminishing Postal Service response times and im called to live up to that commitment. Thats a very reasonable and partnership plan. And madam chair, you mentioned in your Opening Statement that those 25 billion would likely be extended by the end of calendar year 2021. I believe it was calendar year, you mightve met federal fiscal year, would you clarify that you are stating those funds would be extended and then tell me a little bit about what was necessary between now and november, that is where our focus seems to be today versus what needs to be extended between december and the end of 2021 timeline. The demands from the board of governors, the republican board of governors and the other professionals, the Postal Service say that they are in dire shape and need these monies. I am not running the post office but this was a bipartisan effort by many of us including 25 members of the Republican Party to get the money to the post office that the professionals from the post office said would need it. They requested 75 billion, not 25 billion. And the 10 billion line of credit became a problem also with certain demands being placed on it. Basically we should come together in a bipartisan way, fund the post office, stopping the effort that close down the mail until after the pandemic which i think will be much longer than the election that is approaching us and it says until after the pandemic are januar january 2021 and just go forward but make sure the mail is being handled and delivered in a proper way to the people. I was not the least bit argumentative but i was trying to help you build that. I feel that. If i get an answer to my question i think we would be a step in the right direction, we all care about voting and mr. Lynch who has a pleasure serving on transportation doesnt limit his passion to the rules committee from time to time as well. That passion was directed towards protecting democracy in a president ial election in the very nearterm. I think we all share the vision and that passion, 25 billion is a lot of money, 25 billion to folks who already have cash on hand is a question that needs to be answered. My question is, since we all agree that we want to ensure Public Confidence between now and the election, what portion of the 25 billion is necessary then because your Opening Statement you explain the money would not be extended until at the earliest the end of 2021. Well, i want to make sure the money is there for the post office to operate and i support them getting the money now, i would like to get a bipartisan agreement but we can continue this conversation as we go forward. Respectively, we cannot continue a conversation about whether we are going to give the 25 billion after we party given them 25 billion. We need to have a conversation before we give them 25 billion. But i see your point. Can i comment on that question. Please. With respect to something that chairwoman said about there being problems with line of credit that we all supported in the cares act is no demand on the 10 billion cares act loan other than transparency. Why was only demand in the cares act, the treasury loan terms were mutually agreed to with the Postal Service. But one other thing, was something mr. Hasting said has been leveraged by Many Democrats on the panel is how much the mail has been delayed over the last year or the last month and i have the data hear from the Postal Service in the average day is to deliver firstclass mail in fiscal year 19 was 2. 3 days. And for the same average to deliver mail, first class mail for fiscal year 20 in the Current Quarter is the same threepoint to days. But we dont have the data from july and august, we will not get that data in Teller Committee hearing on monday, two days after the vote on this bill but from the data that we have, there is no delay, it is the same amount of time, three days to deliver mail today was this time last year. There is no way. With all due respect, members of this committee are talking about things that they dont have any data to back it up, i heard the story talk to a person who did that and then we got into this and it created a situation with the president and im over here with the post office talking about delays in the mail because you heard this or heard that, the data right here says there is no difference, its the exact same, theyre talking about moving the post boxes to try to hurt Election Results or whatever, obama sent them to mail sorting offices in southern kentucky. This is something that has been ongoing for a long time, i just want to look at the data, there is no difference in the length of time for mail delivery today as opposed to the same quarter last year but again, we will get the data for july and august after this. I think that is the nature of the manufactured crisis that youve discussed with chairman said in his Opening Statement. Can you yield on the questions. Are you find that theres no delay right now . Im getting the calls right now i been getting calls of delays in the mail for 20 years the data shows for the quarter fiscal year quarter 319, 24242. 3 days. And for fiscal year 22. 3 days. There could be delays over july and august but we dont have the data. Were talking about a major piece of legislation. I dont need to wait for my constituents to tell me firsthand [inaudible] you may not think as a Foreign Government with our election in the series, i do and so we disagree on that. But on this here, we are here because the president is openly and blatantly bragging about how he wants to deny money to the Postal Service so we can vote by mail. He is doing that and the fact that there is no concern is astonishing to me. I just dont get it. And with respect im a bit o