who has been nominated by president obama to serve on the board of governors of the united states postal service. vickie kennedy is a public service powerhouse for our country. a brilliant, gifted attorney, adviser and public servant. vickie will be an outstanding member of the postal service board of governors. she will bring intellectual rigor, innovative and ideas, leadership and her endless energy to this post. indeed, vickie's career is singularly suited to the postal service board at a time when it needs public servants as dedicated and creative as vickie. from our first postmaster benjamin franck lynn to today, the postal service has been an integral part of our democracy. it pushes the frontiers of communication, rain or shine through war time and peace. vickie will bring that same steadfast service to the board and a wealth of expertise. when she was a partner at a major law firm, she helped banks reorganize and recapitalize. at a time when efficiency n funding are both issues for the usps, her experience will be invaluable. today, vickie helps organizations develop strategies t

introduced by representative kirkpatrick of arizona, would redesignate the facility of the united states postal service located at 161 live oak street in miami, arizona, as the staff sergeant manuel v. mendoza post office building. staff sergeant mendoza was born in arizona in 1922. mendoza entered the united states army in november of 1942 at the outset of the u.s.'s entry into world war ii. mendoza was a highly decorated soldier. he was awarded the medal of in italy his action on october 4, 1944, where it is said he broke up a german counterattack on his own. mendoza also served with distinction in the korean war. in addition to the medal of honor, mendoza earned a number of other medals and the bronze star. staff sergeant mendoza passed away in 2001. and with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. mr. cummings: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. cummings: thank you very much. mr. speaker, i want to thank the gentlewoman from arizona, represen

who has been nominated by president obama to serve on the board of governors of the united states postal service. vickie kennedy is a public service powerhouse for our country. a brilliant, gifted attorney, adviser and public servant. vickie will be an outstanding member of the postal service board of governors. she will bring intellectual rigor, innovative and ideas, leadership and her endless energy to this post. indeed, vickie's career is singularly suited to the postal service board at a time when it needs public servants as dedicated and creative as vickie. from our first postmaster benjamin franck lynn to today, the postal service has been an integral part of our democracy. it pushes the frontiers of communication, rain or shine through war time and peace. vickie will bring that same steadfast service to the board and a wealth of expertise. when she was a partner at a major law firm, she helped banks reorganize and recapitalize. at a time when efficiency n funding are both issues for the usps, her experience will be invaluable. today, vickie helps organizations develop strategies t

i want to thank president obama for his decision to nominate me to become a member of the united states postal service board of governors. i believe that the board of governors is a critical role in our postal service and ultimately to the american people. so with integrity, pride, and diligent will i serve on the board. i'm committed to exercising every aspect of my legal, business, and technology experience to help the united states postal service continue to evolve with america. as a long-time resident of our nation's capital and native north carolinian -- >> did you say nate of north carolinian? >> native. >> where were you born? >> charlotte. >> really? >> yeah. >> ever hear of boone? >> yeah, absolutely, absolutely. >> my wife's from there. >> okay. >> used to live in charlotte. >> great connectivity. >> i had her move to delaware. >> okay. so i'm a north carolinian, proud grad of duke university and george washington university law school, which my colleague is a professor. and most importantly i'm someone who uses mail services on a very regular basis. i pay all my bills by mail, send

united states postal service, and fedex, they ship things every day that are illegal. e never been charged with that. >> if the post office did the same thing, would the s.e.c. indict the united states post office? i'm being facetious, because it's not a stock, not a publicly traded company. where is the post office culpability this. >> the culpability comes from, if you read the indictment, is they particularly went out and started the online pharmacies that they were warned that these particular pharmacies were not given valid prescriptions, but taking bog us prescriptions and shipping the drugs. if the united states postal service was doing that, i'm not sure that it could be indicted for separation of powers reasons, but it would be in huge trouble. >> i understand the principles of this, but at the same time if somebody law enforcement knew that illegal substances better being transferred. why couldn't they interyoot on use the powers to stop it? why does it fall on fedex to look at every single package to see where it's from? and by the way, the online pharmacy co

want it to go, that it's going to get there in a timely fashion, that they can rely on the united states postal service. that's the image we want to project, that's what we want to have happen. so i would love to see us find other ways to keep our finances robust and to maintain the postal service. >> thank you. i just want to reflect on this for a moment. the legislation reported on this committee a couple months ago allows the postal service to consider whether or not to reduce service from six to five with a number of caveats, including the post office has to be open on weekends, have access to their mailboxes and that kind of thing. certain kinds of items still have to be delivered, including pharmaceuticals, medications ndk that kind of thing. senator levin, we didn't just use a straight trigger, a volume trigger to say if the mail volume dropped to 140 billion, even next year you can go to five days. we didn't do that. we said you can't do it before 2017, and i don't think we're going to see a plummet with the economy coming back. the effect of what we've put to our legislation is that fo

want it to go, that it's going to get there in a timely fashion, that they can rely on the united states postal service. that's the image we want to project. that's what we want to see happen. i would love for us to find other ways to keep our finances robust and to maintain the postal service. >> thank you. i just want to reflect on this for a moment. the legislation that was reported out of this committee a couple of months ago allows the postal service to consider whether or not to reducer advice from six to five with a number of caveats, including post office has to be open on the weekends. people have to have access to their mailboxes and that kind of thing. certain kinds of items still had to be delivered, including pharmaceuticals, medication, that type of thing. but we at the encouragement of senator levin, we didn't use a straight trigger $148 billion trigger to say when the mail volume drops below 140 billion, even if that's next year, you can go to five-day delivery. we said you can't do it before 2007. effectively the postal board of governors, if you see it plum t plummet, i don't

they want it to go so it's going to get there in a timely fashion and they can rely on the united states postal service. that's the impath age we want t project and that's what we want to have happen. i would love to see us find other ways to keep our finances robust and maintain the postal service. >> thank you. i just want to reflect on this for a moment. the legislation that was reported out of this committee a couple of months ago allows the postal service to consider whether or not to reduce service from six to five with a number of caveats, including post office had to be open on weekends. po people have access to their mailboxes and that kind of thing. certain items have to be delivered including pharmaceuticals, medication, that kind of thing. we didn't just use a straight trigger $140 billion -- 140 volume trigger to say when the mail volume drops below that you can go to five day week delivery. we didn't do that. we have a provision that says you can't do it before 2007 and effectively if even the postal service board of governors, i don't think it's going to with the economy coming b

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the clerk: a bill to designate the facility of the united states postal service located at 715 shawan fals drive in dup -- falls drive in dublin, ohio, as the lance corporal wesley g. davids and the captain nicholas j. rozanski memorial post office. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan and the gentleman from massachusetts each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from michigan. mr. bentvolio: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. bentvolio: i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five elective days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. bentvolio: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield as much time as he may consume to my distinguished colleague from the state of ohio, mr. tiberi. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. tiberi: thank you. i thank the gentleman and chairman issa for their ability to

it's the largest source of pollution in the united states and we need to get other nations to do the same. some have done so in summer making postals to do so. we need everybody including the u.s. to do more. us as the first up, not the last step. -- this is the first step, not the last step. this is the beginning and if we don't act, we will sue the worst impact within 35 years. we are already expecting sea level rising in norfolk for example. this is by hundreds of scientists, not economists. host: emily is on our line for independents. caller: good morning, i disagree with mr. weiss. guest: how could you ? caller: you keep repeating yourself. i read an urkel in a science that,ne and after i read i pursued it on the internet. late 1998 or so, up until today, we have been having massive earthquakes. in that magazine and on the internet, everything you are talking about, mr. weiss, is what earthquakes can produce. has tilted on its access 27.3 degrees since 2007 from all the terrible earthquakes we had. we tilted for the northeast. host: you say you checked out the information on the internet. what sites do you trust to get your in

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there are a lot of postals out their creative it is really lethal injection. that is the only method being used in the united statesoday. a judge advocates a firing squad execution. guest: that was the judge i referred to. he said the people might not be accepting of the guillotine. i don't know if that is acceptable by the public. those things can go wrong. a firing squad can go wrong. it can take longer than expected as well. people want the executions to be swift and quiet and putting to sleep. that sort of thing. becomes ans isabel cliffhanger. it is uncertain how they will be taking or will they be groaning and moving around? that is not what is anticipated. is we shoulde said get out of that model. it is a medical model and they are not experts in medicine. ast: we say that -- we have person on twitter saying that we are the only countries that use it. 200 catches ofe the world and about 145 of them don't use it anymore. is by far the leader in carrying out executions. we are up there with them. it is not an enviable position. our death penalty is declining in use, even as these controversies around its world

it's the largest source of pollution in the united states and we need to get other nations to do the same. some have done so in summer making postalsdo so. we need everybody including the u.s. to do more. us as the first up, not the last step. -- this is the first step, not the last step. this is the beginning and if we don't act, we will sue the worst impact within 35 years. we are already expecting sea level rising in norfolk for example. this is by hundreds of scientists, not economists. host: emily is on our line for independents. caller: good morning, i disagree with mr. weiss. guest: how could you ? caller: you keep repeating yourself. i read an urkel in a science that,ne and after i read i pursued it on the internet. late 1998 or so, up until today, we have been having massive earthquakes. in that magazine and on the internet, everything you are talking about, mr. weiss, is what earthquakes can produce. has tilted on its access 27.3 degrees since 2007 from all the terrible earthquakes we had. we tilted for the northeast. host: you say you checked out the information on the internet. what sites do you trust to get your inform