[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11584]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE

  (Mr. HIGGINS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HIGGINS. Madam Speaker, the United States Postal Service 
continues to try to fix themselves financially with service cuts that 
will undermine the agency's viability, not strengthen it.
  I am pleased to be a cosponsor of my colleague Congresswoman Rosa 
DeLauro's legislation, the Protect Overnight Delivery Act, to prevent 
the Postal Service from weakening delivery standards.
  Eliminating overnight delivery would threaten hundreds of postal 
facilities across the Nation, including the William Street facility in 
my western New York community.
  Madam Speaker, while the Postal Service is certainly in need of 
reform, this is the wrong way to do it. Once again, the Postal Service 
is making ill-conceived decisions that hurt both workers and consumers.

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