Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — Rep. Ocasio-Cortez questions Postmaster General

congresswoman ocasio-cortez you are now recognized thank you very much madam chairwoman and thank you to postmaster joy for coming in and offering your testimony today uh mr de joy when uh when your announcement in in your new position as postmaster general was announced you know there was some folks that were flagging concerns that you would be the first postmaster general in two decades without previous experience or service directly in the usps but to be fair and as you mentioned you do have extensive career experience in supply chain logistics correct i do and in fact you served as ceo of your own supply chain company new breed logistics for 30 years correct i did and that was up until about 2014 when you merged new breed logistics with another company xpo logistics where you also served a ceo for a year and then served on its board of directors until about 2018 when you submitted your resignation correct now i would like madam chairwoman i would like to submit to the committee three documents for the record the postmaster's new entrant report detailing his financial disclosures a publicly available data detailing the usps top suppliers for the last three years and the recent xpo sec filings now mr dejoy you've received thank you uh mr dejoy you've received about 1.86 at 1.86 million dollars in rental payments uh from your former company xpo correct uh approximately yes have you taken any meetings with xpo logistics since becoming postmaster general i'm not have you emailed texted called video conference or communicated with your former company xpo logistics i have many friends at the company and i've spoken them casually over the last several months yes i probably would have spoken to him thank you now you started in your role as postmaster general on june 16th of this year that's a very big job don't need to tell you that and it has a lot of responsibility you mentioned meeting with president trump as secretary mnuchin i can't even imagine how busy that must be now do you keep a daily calendar uh i do yeah have you or your staff made any deletions to your calendar since becoming postmaster general on june 16. i don't i don't think so you don't think so um have do ethics officers at usps have access to your calendar to screen conflicts of interest we have an ethics officer that looks at meetings that i have yes and they have a full access to your calendar uh they will work yes uh can we get a commitment from you to submit your uh calendar dating back to june 16th to this committee i don't know i will check with council um well you know i want to set a precedent for my calendar to be submitted every two months well according to to regulations that we currently have electronic calendars that are submitted and maintained on usps computers are agency records and so can we get your commitment to hand that calendar over to this committee as a matter of reports for investigation i'm new to this if that is in fact a process that our council says and must comply with then i will do that yes thank you um madam madam chairwoman i would say you know the details of this calendar are extraordinarily important to the committee's investigations and if we cannot receive them voluntarily i would recommend consideration of a subpoena for these details now lastly and selfishly i represent new york's 14th congressional district we have written the agency several times regarding accessibility for a ramp in our historic jackson heights post office and i would greatly appreciate return correspondence to make sure that we can ensure that our disabled and elderly constituents can get access to the post office thank you very much i yield my time