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deasy this same kind of explosion due to people basically going on amazon and saying, i am not goingt. will clinton do all of my holiday shopping. >> we expected about 12%, and it looks like we are going to be delivering somewhere around 17, 18%. the numbers are not wonder percent finished here. our model is a little bit different than ups and fedex. a lot more of our packages, the last mile. we have that as those at the peak and spread the workload out. the biggest issues you face in trying to run the volume you can run through that that work. a lot of people come on. like you said, 15, 16 percent, higher than expected. melissa: at the end of the day when christmas is over there are a lot of people of our release angry. everybody and had something and they said that they were promised to get there and did not get there. what is the lesson for next year? and mean a lot of it -- really fault the websites, whether it was amazon or just a little cookie companies in all of the people that said, come in and order the you know, 11:00 p.m. on dec. 23rd and we will get it there for conti

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deasy were to what extent did you look at emergency planning in the wake of yesterday's election in virginia? >> we looked at it carefully. in paris, what is actually already out there was a really good job of a of highlighting that issue. it is all contained in the appendix, the national association to the secretary of the state as a particularly good program. we did look at it. we were impressed by what others had done before us this. >> one thing that we said is in the value of the report what the contingency plans are so that for rescheduling election in that event, sometimes the ball was going to drop and you don't actually have an answer, the same as with having someone in charge to make a call to whether an election has to be rescheduled, but does the national association taskforce this of the referenced in report that we appoint people to. >> many of us in that area. certain parts of the country, but first responders came from all over. and given us responders flexibility and other states back, love and said those absentee to give them the ability to do that is something that is an e

tom deasy this fall to ohio passed it will be less bring to power last fall the michigan senate passed it. over to the house and thursday morning. testify before the house committee. georgia senate passes over to the else. the south carolina house passed it by s -- and your senate finance committee right now. and you need to let them know about it. we have resolutions filed in 12 more states. grass-roots people are helping us along. they could not have done it in ohio without the effort. ladies and gentlemen, if everything would go well, of course, it never does, but it's possible, by august we could have 35 active resolution is to convene a solution. >> thank you. until you what, i get excited every time i here as numbers. no, knowledge is power. tomorrow night at 630 it:00 eurofranc to seminars to teach that the party, the grassroots, on the ground have to take back our government as easy as abc. how to reform the government. abolish the irs and replace the tax code balance the federal budget. why can't they? forty-nine others. and compel our government to fall to constitution mesqui

, i think, interesting debates that prevent us all too often from dealing with these decisions and deasy responsibilities by congress and the administration and listening to recommendations. i would give you an example. some may think that tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires are necessary. as clearly feel that extend emergency unemployment insurance is wasteful. we will continue to debate those programs. i can give you another example based upon some of the testimony today. i come from a state where we don't have a sunset clause but have done some on some legislation. because of the political climate, that particular issue or program base to be reauthorize, does not command the spend wasteful money on a special session trying to get addressed. so it depends on what is happening. it is a case by case basis, but we are not doing anything on that low hanging fruit. i need you to grade s on congress. i have been here only a year on adopting sensible, good government reforms, outlining your reports every year. how are we doing a picking up on that line anchored? a to f. >> not so low