postal service. that was 16 years ago. because of the 2002 law, private carriers like ups, fedex, dhl and others require usable data on every package entering the united states. while the postal service gets its data for less than 40% of the hundreds of millions of packages it receives every year. and again, the postal service data is sometimes not usable, and 20% of those packages targeted because of the data are never presented for law enforcement to be inspected. folks, this is just wrong. we can and we must do better. we talked earlier about the number of people dying from fentanyl overdoses, it's the new scourge. we've got to do better. this is why i've introduceed the stop act. this bipartisan bill would require the postal service to get that data on all the packages entering the united states. the cosponsor is amy klobuchar of minnesota and we now have 29 senate cosponsors from both sides of the aisle. and the bipartisan house companion bill is cosponsored by, i believe, a majority now of the house of representatives. why? because this is just a commonsense solution that people understand has to be done. i urge all my senate colleagues to join us in d

host: tell us about the united states postal service. here is a tweet -- guest: agencies that are , they receive no appropriations from congress. they are funded through selling stamps and other mail services. they stay open in a shutdown and have money to operate. they don't rely on congress to give them their funding. they continue to deliver. federalbecca is a employee in goshen, indiana, good morning. caller: yes, i am a disabled that. i was -- of that. vet. 2013 shutdown and as a disabled vet i am heartbroken looking at the civilian side through the 2013 shutdown, i never saw that pay. , istatus today over 20 years requested to go on leave because i see this on a daily basis. i am a republican and proud of it and i work with people in a large city who i know are publicly very much the other way. i have to go in now and ask for my pay, and asked her five days, because it was suddenly andended for me personally i won't go into the details. i have that little added thing that i will have to go through to get my pay. what i have seen is

the united states postal service vow to go aist is law enforcement.rasco from sister network fox business on how local mailman is lending a hand, hey, tracee. >> aggressively working with law enforcement and federal agencies to try and stop illegal opioids from entering the united states so they have been increasing investigations, they have been using technology to try and stop all of this. so here are the numbers, 2016 through 2017 they saw increase of 375% in international parcel seizure, 880% in domestic parcel seizures. jillian: if going to starbucks, is my drink going to be full? >> depends on how you look at it. there was a lawsuit and the judge tossed this out against tar bucks staying they weren't filling up lattes all the way to the top and they say this was an effort to save money and that the foam was taking up too much space but the judge said there wasn't enough evidence so that's why the lawsuit was tossed out but in starbucks' defense, if you ask them to make drink over again because you don't like it, they usually will. rob: dunkin do

customs and border protection, the drug enforcement administration and the united states and postal inspection service in a unified effort with both domestic and international law enforcement partners to target transnational criminal organizations supplying dangerous opioids to the united states. i would like to highlight our efforts, specifically fentanyl, coming into the united states through international mail facilities. based on investigative efforts, the united states law enforcement has identified china as a primary source of the u.s. illicit opioid threat. their precursors are most often produced in china and shipped by mail carriers directly to the united states or alternatively to mexico. once in the western hemisphere, fentanyl or its analogs are prepared and mixed into the u.s. heroin supply domestically or pressed into pill form and then moved to the u.s. market where demand for prescription opioids and heroin remains at epidemic proportions. mexican transnational criminal organizations receive shipments of fentanyl directly from china to supply the illicit u.s. market. they utili

rob portman (r-oh): the united states postal service is providing a conduit for poison coming into ourcommunities. jessica smith reporting: portman has introduced a bill to close what he calls a "massive loophole." the stop act would require the post office to provide data about international packages -- like who is sending it, where it's coming from and what's inside. sen. rob portman (r-oh): the post office, believe it or not doesn't provide that for every package. but if you send something by fedex, you have to do that. that data helps law enforcement flag suspicious packages. a postal service official told the senators it is working to stop the drug traffickers. post office: we're laser focused... but portman and senator heidi heitkamp said government agencies aren't treating this as an urgent problem. sen heidi heitkamp (d-nd): we can build a $20b wall -- but if we don't solve this problem will not have solved the problem with interdicting drugs. portman's report linked online sellers in china to seven opioid-related deaths in the united states. sen. rob portman (r-oh): how many p

. >> major kudos to the united states postal service for delivering those letters so fast, almost not possible. who are these reporters? a normal thing that would absolutely writing. for the record, i didn't write a letter. when i want to do something totally normal i send the president one of those big cookies with icing or those edible arrangements with cantaloupe which i think is a filler fruit. i'll ask my fellow reporters on our next cruise called anchors away. this is how the white house actually responded with a list of two cnn videos and 19 tweets. to be fair, this list does have words on it, and those words are actually made up of letters, but that's not generally accepted in reality to mean the same thing as, quote, letters of congratulation that anchors sent to the president. as for the white house's list of tweets 18 out of 19 are not actually from anchors and 19 out of 19 are not letters. and the congratulations heaped on the president on this list, here's one from the daily mail editor. that's a text congratulations letter. here's a tweet from a buzzfeed letter. i'm so t

. >> the united states postal service urges carriers to wear proper footwear, reduce driving speed andside stops offering short relief. >> we kind of used to this weather so we always prepare for it no matter what. amy: prepared and ready for even colder temperatures ahead. amy aubert, abc7 news. michelle: a busy time for the ice cutters. this boat is making sure other boats have a safe pass to travel on the chesapeake bay. they have been at it for four straight days. >> i'm sitting up high and sometimes you can pick open water to go through. sometimes you can't. you just look. michelle: a patriots fan, too. eddie summers piloted the ice cutter for 23 years. he says while the ice formed earlier than normal this year it's nothing compared to the solid sheet of ice he had to cut through in 2015. jonathan: here is the problem with his gig. if he gets stuck he is there until march. [laughter] bill: he's done! jonathan: you can radio all you want. if the cutter is stuck, you are done. bill: that is true. it's one of the days seriously i'm grateful that, i'm sure we are, we have an indoor jo

people, the greatest trend now is coming through getting the shipments through ups, fedex, the united states postal service. these things are coming. and you also have that in coordination with use of the internet and maybe some of the dark parts of the internet too. that creates a great challenge. how are you doing on that -- that's a pretty tough challenge too? are we getting more cooperation from the postal service, from these other countries at the point they're being sent from, the fbi, mr. richardson? >> yes, sir, thank you for the question. and certainly realize that opioid addiction and trafficking of opioids in this country is a great problem. it will probably be worse tomorrow than it is today unfortunately. but we do have resources that are targeting the distributors of those illegal opioids to the communities. one thing that we are doing that's a little bit unique, maybe from some of the other agencies, is we've stood up a unit that looks at the dark neck specifically in order to try to identify those individuals, those organizations that are on the dark net, the net beyond the net, hid

-- the senate, security committee and government affairs subcommittee is looking into the united states postalervice and what it is doing to prevent distribution through mail of synthetic drugs and opioids through the united states. live coverage begins at 10:00 on c-span3. you can watch online at c-span.org and the c-span radio app. the u.s. council conference of mayors convention, the second session is happening today. we show you a couple of clips from yesterday's opening session earlier in our program. you can watch the continuing coverage at 11:15 on c-span.org. that's your call as we continue to discuss the president's comment yesterday on backing a path to citizenship for dreamers in the next has a 12 years. randall, republican, go ahead. caller: be already have a path to citizenship. these people have been here for yearsrs -- four to six and they do not bother to use our path to citizenship? they are still foreigners and should be sent back to where they came from. if you are an illegal alien, you cannot be able to work in this country. you had verify they are citizens before they take

2016, the upu's postal operations council, the poc, adopted regulations for the 2012 convention amendment and also a road map for the implementation of those regulations. the united states co-chairs with india the postal operations committee that oversees much of the work required to reach the road map's milestones. these milestones include final adoption of the technical messaging standard for item level data and the poc met this goal when it approved an item attribute message standard in its most recent meeting last october. in combination, these two developments, the regulation and the standard, enable upu member countries to impose requirements for aed. upu members must do so, however, in a manner that is consistent with the real world capability of the global postal network. accordingly, the focus is now on building capacity. at the global level, this entails building out other elements of the upu's messaging and data flows. this work is progressing well, but will only have utility if the postal operators develop the capability to collect the data and to use the tools available to them. the needed in investment in skills and technology is happening and it is being

social security checks will still go out and the united states postal service will be there to deliver them. air traffic controllers keep directing planes. federal law enforcement keeps working and the united states military will stand watch around the globe. for hah mat irrelevant and some of the most dangerous places they will wage war around the globe. the big difference who gets paid. government employees will not get paid if this keeps going for a long period of time. what are called nonessential government employees will be furloughed. james langford, the senator from oklahoma, pointed out in every one of the government shutdowns there have been more than a dozen that date back to the 1970s, all federal employees have been made whole. of course there's the issue between essential government employees who come to work and the nonessential ones who stay home. the debate after the shutdown about why the government has nonessential employees to begin with. that is the reality in terms of what happens tomorrow, and over the coming days and weeks. things sort of slowly shut down, the l

i'm robert cintron, the vice president and network operations for the united states postal service. i oversee the postal service's national distribution network, including its operations at the international service centers, known as iscs. last may i testified before this subcommittee on our effort to combat opioids in the mail, highlighting the collection and receipt of advanced electronic data known at aed. together with our federal agency partners we're committed to aggressively and increasing aed for packages coming into the united states in order to improve the targeting and the elicit drugs and other contraband. in the past three years, the postal service has gone from receiving almost no aed on inpound shipments to receiving more than 40% as of december 2017. we are now testing data that will allow to us target more package volume from china. this data results in a significant increase in the amount of aed the postal service receives by the end of 2018. since january 2017, the number of countries sending aed to the postal service has grown knock eight to 23, and includes china

i'm robert cintron, the i'm the vice president of network operations for the united states postal service. i oversee the national distribution network, including operations at the international service centers known at ise. last may i testified before the subcommittee on the effort combat opioid in the to mail, high lighting collection and recede of electronic data known at aed. we are committed to aggressively and increasing aed for pathages coming into the united states in order to improve the targeting of elicit drugs and other contraban. the past three years the postal service has bon from receiving almost know aed on inbound shipments to receiving more than 40% as of december 2017. we're now testing data that well allow to us target more package volume from china. this data will result in a significant increase in the amount of aed the postal service receives by the end of 2018. since january 2017, the number of countries sending aed to the postal service as grown from 8 to 23 and includes china and other countries of interest. we have pry orized obtaining aed from the largest volume

postal service not doing right? >> in the end, we know significant amounts of really dangerous drugs, especially fentanyl, which is significantly more powerful than heroin or carfentanyl are coming into the united states through the postal service. now i believe they try to pass a bill in congress last year that would have required additional screening and i think there was a concern about dollars and funding we cannot -- not fund catching these dangerous drugs as they come into the united states. i'll give you an example. that individual overdosing in downtown lexington at 3:00 p.m. had been smoking carfentanyl we believe while driving in the middle of the day and i think about my seven and eight-year-old could have been in a car right across the street if these drugs can kill you the first time or you can kill somebody else, we have to take advantage of that opportunity. >> it's a dramatic picture you paint and we certainly wish you good luck. attorney general andy beshear thanks for joining us from kentucky tonight. >> thank you so much. >> crippling crises both at home in the united states and in the anks for watching amanpour on pbs. join us again tomorrow night. ♪ ♪ ♪

host: tell us about the united states postal service.e is a tweet -- guest: agencies that are , they receive no appropriations from congress. they are funded through selling stamps and other mail services. they stay open in a shutdown and have money to operate. they don't rely on congress to give them their funding. they continue to deliver. federalbecca is a employee in goshen, indiana, good morning. caller: yes, i am a disabled that. i was -- of that. vet. 2013 shutdown and as a disabled vet i am heartbroken looking at the civilian side through the 2013 shutdown, i never saw that pay. , istatus today over 20 years requested to go on leave because i see this on a daily basis. i am a republican and proud of it and i work with people in a large city who i know are publicly very much the other way. i have to go in now and ask for my pay, and asked her five days, because it was suddenly andended for me personally i won't go into the details. i have that little added thing that i will have to go through to get my pay. what i have seen is the

have out of college, worked for the united states postal service, trove for public of sportation for city detroit, also for suburban region tation for this and as well as that, i drive, around the country. it that up until 2003, and took care of my parents until they died. i received the house and all. i paid into the system. i did income tax, i didn't was able to ever i give was less fortunate i was is how this d that country should be. we re a nation under god, have giving hearts, we don't have oppressive hearts. tonk you, that is what i had say. host: jill in michigan. jose, republican. caller: yes. how you doing? think sessions is basically clueless because he has recused failed tod yet he has look at conflict of interest in he uranium 1 deal with the clinton foundation, refused to look at conflicts of interest of mccabe, and his wife, ith the so-called golden showe showers -- recall golden showers thing that they took to the to get some kind of -- whatarrant to search is his name? the president's campaign. i mean, i can't believe that nobody is looking into the fact that it was

united states, mexico, china, other countries. drugs are entering our country across employees and even to our own postal system. this will allow our customers and customs, we want is customs and border protection. we have to have customs and border protection, which is desperately needed and we have the resources to attack that interdict these dangerous drugs. reasons, areot of far more dangerous than they've ever been. even the dogs can track them down. if they tracked them, they die. the dogs die is from the sent. the scent.m it will increase the number of chemicals grading devices and experts to interpret the data that is collected. my administration is committed to do everything we can to comment this deadly scourge of drug addiction and overdose. significantents a step forward. great congressmen and women and senators and they will start with rob and will go around a anybody anything. >> we appreciate your support of pushing back the deadly poison that's pushing in to our communities from the mail system, primarily from china. as the number one killer now in terms of overdoses in and over the past several

we have heard how drugs are smuggled into the united states in massive cargo containers through our land ports of entry, through the express mail and postal system, through tunnels under fences, and by all tra light aircraft and drones. we know people are smuggled and trafrnged into the united states through legitimate forms of travel, and others come here legally but over stay. data also shows that people on the terrorist watch list along the northern border more frequently than southern border. furthermore, the majority of these individuals present themselves at ports of entry rather than to sneak into the country. to address these threats, they rely on screening and vetting techniques, technology, in infrastructure and most importantly officers and agents. they faces serious challenges in recruiting professional workforce to accomplish mission and these challenges are get only getting worse. i have mentioned multiple timings this congress that hiring retention problems pose an unacceptable self inflicted risk. based on its workforce staffing model, their office of field operations needs to deploy additional 2, 500 officers to ports of

express mail postal system through tunnels under fences and ultralight aircraft in drones. we know that people are smuggled in the united states through legitimate forms of travel and others come here legally but overstay. data shows people on the watch list are countered along our northern border more frequently than along our southern border. furthermore the majority of these individuals present themselves at ports of entry rather than try to sneak into the country. addressing these threats of cbp were lies on screening and vetting with the technology of the structure and most importantly officers and agents. cdp faces serious challenges in recruiting and maintaining a professional workforce to accomplish this mission and these challenges are only getting worse. i've mentioned multiple times to this congress that cbp is hiring retention problems put a set self-inflicted risk. based on his work for staffing model cbp office of field operations need to deploy an additional 2500 cbp officers at ports of entry is to meet demand and does not include the more than 1000 vacancies still left unfilled the last time congress authorize

the united states are their voices and they demand fair and reasonable working conditions. we saw that power in 1970 during the postal workers' strike. workers had had enough. as mr. scott from virginia mentioned earlier, the power from the sanitation strike, workers were willing to sacrifice their lines. a pastor, a good friend of mine, he made a phone call to a man he met 10 years earlier. jim lawson got out of prison for refusing to go to korea. he met martin luther king and both ended up in india studying under ghandi. d he realized he started the southern christian leadership conference and he said will you come to memphis. he said we need you to help us with that strike. when dr. king tried to get the board to vote to come to memphis, they were not in support. dr. king struggled around a couple of days by himself and let everyone know on the board he was going to go by himself. that of course changed everybody else's minds and they joined him in memphis. we know what happened when he went to memphis. he was killed on the balcony of a motel. and sacrificed his life for workers, for workers. the people who built

postal services to combat the trafficking of synthetic drugs. and 7 p.m. an event marking the 50th anniversary of the vietnam war's tet offensive. >> the president of the united states. [applause] >> tuesday night, president donald trump gives his first state of the union address to congress and the nation. join c-span for a preview of the evening starting at 8:00 eastern and then the state of the union speech live at 9 p.m. and following the speech, the democratic response. we'll also hear your reaction and comments from members of congress. president trump's state of the union address, tuesday night live on c-span. listen live with the free c-span radio app and available live or on demand on your desk top, phone or tablet at c-span.org. next, remarks from pakistan's ambassador to the u.s. at this event he said that u.s.-pakistan relations are under stress, but the relationship must be preserved. the center for strategic and international studies hosted this event. >> okay, yeah. so, i hold the chair here at csis. it's a privilege to be hosting this with dr. jones. we are going to be having