Posted on 08/17/2020 2:52:50 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Washington (CNN)The House is set to return on Saturday to vote on legislation related to the US Postal Service, House Democratic leaders announced Monday, with an eye toward providing the financially strapped agency with $25 billion in funding despite White House objections.
The bill is still being finalized, top Democrats told members during a caucus call, but it will incorporate a version of Rep. Carolyn Maloney's Delivering for America Act, which would prohibit recent USPS operational changes the Trump administration has made that have slowed mail service around the country.
The bill will also include Democrats' initial ask for $25 billion in funding for the Postal Service, three sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told members the final bill is likely to come out of committee on Tuesday.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee also announced Monday afternoon that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy will testify next week amid accusations that the Trump administration is purposefully hamstringing the Postal Service in an effort to prevent mail-in voting during the pandemic.
Pelosi announced over the weekend that she would call the chamber back into session from its August recess to consider emergency legislation to halt service changes carried out under DeJoy. The House had previously planned to next return for votes in the middle of September.
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They are so worried about the safety of voting in person that they congregated in protest at the home of the postmaster general
And Congress keeps spending money we don’t have but they don’t give a damn.
“The bill will also include Democrats’ initial ask for $25 billion in funding for the Postal Service“
Four reporters, and none of them is capable of recognizing that “ask” is a verb and that they should have chosen a noun like “request.”
(Yes, I am aware that among the millennials this is now a cool trend. That just makes them look more ignorant.)
DUMB, OBAMA SCRAPPED THOSE POST BOXES. ALL YOU ARE FUNDING IS EXEC PAY RAISES.
Fact Check: Obama-Biden Removed At Least 14,000 Mailboxes
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