[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 14808-14809]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          POST OFFICE CONGRESS

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, almost every morning I talk to my parents who 
are both in their 80s and are very inquisitive about what goes on in 
Congress.
  Today, like most Mondays, I tell them we are working on postal 
legislation. I don't really go further and tell them the legislation 
actually is just naming post office buildings throughout the vast 
plains and prairies of America. After all, we have named 72 Federal 
buildings in Congress.
  According to the Wall Street Journal, almost 30 percent of our 
legislation passed this Congress has been naming Federal buildings. 
Today I see we will be naming two more post offices.
  Today Mom said she can't even afford gas to get to the post office. 
Mr. Speaker, maybe this ``Drill Nothing Congress'' should find more 
energy for Americans. Open up the Outer Continental Shelf to crude oil. 
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needs to get to work and solve the gasoline issue. We can name post 
office buildings at some other time.
  There has been enough talk about energy. Now action is demanded. 
However, it seems when all is said and done, more is said than done 
about the energy problem. Maybe we should rename our Congress the Post 
Office Congress.
  And that's just the way it is.

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