Carolyn Maloney

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I also urge passage of H.R. 3275, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 4785) to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1305 U.S. Highway 90 West in Castroville, Texas, as the ``Lance Corporal Rhonald Dain Rairdan Post Office''.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself as much time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to join my colleagues in consideration of H.R. 4785 to designate the facility of the U.S. Postal Service located at 1305 U.S. Highway 90 West in Castroville, Texas, as the Lance Corporal Rhonald Dain Rairdan Post Office. Rhonald Dain Rairdan was born on April 22, 1984, at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. He was a 2003 graduate of Medina Valley High School, where he was a member of the ROTC drill team. Dain was raised in an Air Force family and lived in many different places, but he wanted to be a U.S. marine his entire life. Four months after joining the Marine Corps, Lance Corporal Rairdan was deployed to the Middle East to join the Marine-led offensive to take control of Fallujah. Lance Corporal Rairdan's unit was tasked with hunting for weapon stockpiles and policing the damaged city as residents tried to regain a sense of normalcy. On January 26, 2005, the helicopter he was onboard crashed near Rutbah, Iraq, killing 30. Dain died doing what he loved, protecting the United States. Castroville, Texas, was his adopted home, and naming this post office for him will allow the residents there to remember and honor his dedicated service. Mr. Speaker, I thank the Honorable Member from Texas, Representative Hurd, for this legislation to honor this American hero. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to join my colleagues in consideration of H.R. 5384 to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 Crosby Street in Mansfield, Louisiana, as the Dr. C.O. Simpkins, Sr., Post Office. Born and raised in Mansfield, Louisiana, Dr. Simpkins attended Wiley College and Tennessee State University for his undergraduate studies before earning a degree in dentistry from Meharry Medical College. Following his undergraduate education, he joined the U.S. Air Force, obtaining the rank of captain before being honorably discharged. After his military service, he returned to Shreveport, Louisiana, to open a dental practice. During this time, he became very involved with the civil rights movement and was a close friend of Dr. Martin Luther King. This drew the attention of racist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan, and his home and office were firebombed. Fearing for his safety, Dr. Simpkins moved to New York, where he continued to advocate for civil rights. After living in New York for 26 years, Dr. Simpkins returned to Shreveport, reopened his dental practice, and pursued a career in politics. He won a seat in the Louisiana State House of Representatives, where he served for one term before returning to his dental practice full time. He retired from his practice in 2011. Dr. Simpkins passed away on December 4, 2019, at the age of 94. We are pleased to honor his legacy and memory by naming a post office in his honor. Mr. Speaker, I thank Representative Johnson, the distinguished ranking member of the Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Liberties, for this bill to honor this community and civil rights leader. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I urge the passage of H.R. 5384, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to join my colleagues in consideration of H.R. 4200, to designate the facility of the U.S. Postal Service located at 321 South 1st Street in Montrose, Colorado, as the Sergeant David Kinterknecht Post Office. Sergeant Kinterknecht was born on May 23, 1968, in Montrose, Colorado. His roots in Montrose run deep. Throughout his childhood, he attended public schools in Montrose and eventually graduated, in 1986, from Montrose High School. After graduation, he attended Mesa State College and Delta Montrose Technical College, where he trained and completed his education to achieve his lifelong dream of becoming a police officer. He worked for several different departments, starting with the Telluride Marshal's Office, the San Miguel County Sheriff's Office, and the Montrose County Sheriff's Office. In the last 10 years of his career, he worked for the Montrose Police Department, and he was also a volunteer for the Montrose Fire Protection District. In his free time, he was a member of the Montrose Area Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 56. Sergeant David Kinterknecht was shot and killed while responding to a routine domestic violence call in 2009. Two of his fellow officers were also wounded in the tragedy. He died at the age of 41, survived by his wife, two daughters, and three stepsons. Naming this post office after Sergeant Kinterknecht would honor his life of courageous, selfless service to his community and the ultimate sacrifice he made for the safety of others. I would like to thank the honorable Member from Colorado, Representative Tipton, for this bill to honor this dedicated public servant who was taken too soon. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to join my colleagues in consideration of S. 3105, to designate the facility of the U.S. Postal Service located at 456 North Meridian Street in Indianapolis, Indiana, as the Richard G. Lugar Post Office. Richard Lugar was born in Indianapolis in 1932. After attending high school, he studied at Denison University and Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He then served in the U.S. Navy as an intelligence officer and returned to Indianapolis soon after. He first served in local government on the school board and then became city mayor. In 1976, Richard Lugar was elected to the United States Senate. While in office, he made significant bipartisan reforms to the farm program, started the biofuels research program, and preserved the Federal school lunch program. Senator Lugar also left a mark on United States foreign policy. He served 34 years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he was a leader in reducing nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. With Senator Sam Nunn, Senator Lugar helped pass and implement the Nunn-Lugar program, which dismantled the weapons of mass destruction and their associated infrastructure in former Soviet Union states. Senator Lugar was also instrumental in the expansion of the NATO alliance, the creation of a program to end the global AIDS epidemic, and the ratification of various antiterrorist treaties. For his lifetime of service, Senator Lugar was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013, and he held 47 honorary degrees. Senator Lugar passed away shortly after his 87th birthday on April 28, 2019. Naming a post office after Senator Lugar would help honor his lifetime of public service. I would like to thank Senator Braun and Representative Andre Carson, who introduced the House companion for this bill to honor Senator Lugar's lifetime of work to save our Nation. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I just would like to urge my colleagues to support this bill unanimously. I yield back the balance of my time.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from the Virgin Islands (Ms. Plaskett), who is another outstanding member of the committee.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Cohen).

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Green).

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur), the chair of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lee).

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 1092, I call up the bill (H.R. 8015) to maintain prompt and reliable postal services during the COVID- 19 health emergency, and for other purposes, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material on H.R. 8015.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 5 minutes. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the Delivering for America Act. I also rise in strong support of the brave postal workers across this Nation who are continuing to deliver the mail for the American people in the middle of a global pandemic. The Postal Service is a critical component of America's infrastructure. It provides a lifeline of medication, supplies, and mail for all Americans, everywhere they live, especially in this time of need. Earlier this year, the Postal Service asked Congress to help. They asked us for $25 billion in critical assistance to help navigate through this crisis, just like all these other industries did, businesses and entities that received Federal funds from Congress. This was not a Democratic request. It came from the Postal Service, and it was supported unanimously by the Board of Governors, all of whom were appointed by President Trump. In response to this urgent request, the House acted. The House said yes. We acted swiftly to help the Postal Service. We voted to include $25 billion in the HEROES Act, and we passed it on May 15. Unfortunately, the President would not agree, and the request has languished for more than 3 months. And now we know why, because the President told us why. He admitted on national television that he was blocking the $25 billion in order to hobble mail-in voting. That is what he said, and I would like to read it to you. ``They want $25 billion for the post office. Now they need that money in order to make the post office work, so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots.'' Regrettably, it does not end there. Now the new Postmaster General is using this lack of funding to justify sweeping and damaging changes to Postal Service operations, and we have seen the results: national headlines about delays of days and weeks in mail, veterans desperately waiting for their medications, sorting machines being ripped out and put in dumpsters. Yesterday, some of my Republican colleagues argued at the Rules Committee that there are ``no delays.'' That is right, no delays happening anywhere. They claimed repeatedly that there is no data that proves these delays are real. But we have eyes, and we have heard accounts from across this Nation, from our districts and every district in this Nation, and we have the Postmaster General himself who admitted yesterday that there are, in fact, delays, that he feels bad about them, and that he is working feverishly to address them. In addition, this afternoon, we have something else. We have new information. We have received new internal Postal Service documents showing nationwide performance data from July and August, official post office data. These new documents show that the delays we have all heard about are actually far worse than previously expected and told us. And they are across the board. They are across this Nation. This afternoon, I am making these new documents available to all Members of the House, and I urge you to review them carefully. They will be available on the floor during this debate. The bill we are considering today is simple. It does two things. First, it provides the $25 billion the Postal Service requested on a bipartisan basis to help during the coronavirus crisis. Second, it returns delivery standards to the way they were before the Postmaster General recently caused all those delays, which has an impact on the delivery and the ability of Americans to vote by mail. This is not a partisan issue. It makes absolutely no sense to implement these dramatic changes in the middle of a pandemic less than 3 months before the November elections. The American people do not want anyone messing with the post office. They certainly do not want it to be politicized. They just want their mail, they want their medicines, and they want their mail-in ballots delivered in a timely way. And that is exactly what our bill does. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, first, in response, this is not a Democratic conspiracy theory. Republican officials from across this country, elected and appointed, have expressed their own concerns about postal delays and the President's comments. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton).

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. The other side of the aisle has a double standard. Congress provided hundreds of billions of dollars to all sorts of industries, businesses, large and small entities across the country to help them cope with the coronavirus crisis. We did not require them to come forward with detailed plans of how they are going to spend their money. But they want it for the Postal Service. Now, the Postal Service made a public request, and they requested it and presented it to the Board of Governors, who are appointed by President Trump, and the Board approved it unanimously. That is far more than all these other entities that we have given billions of dollars to did. And we should support the Postal Service now. On top of it, the CBO came out with an estimate that this money would be spent in the next fiscal year, and that they needed it. The CBO record can be found online. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Mfume).

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the distinguished majority leader.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Yes, I have.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Adams).

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the distinguished gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Neguse).