Government affairs

The House and Senate go on recess for two weeks today, which is an excellent time for letter carriers to reach out to their members of Congress and educate them on our priority issues.

Bipartisan majority of support was reached for House Resolution 33 

Today, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) held a hearing on the nominations of Ron A. Bloom and Roman Martinez IV to the Postal Board of Governors (BOG), along with two nominees to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

The House and Senate were in session this week with Appropriations and Budget season beginning to kickoff. 

In an 11-9 party-line vote today, the Senate Budget Committee advanced a budget resolution for the upcoming fiscal year (FY) 2020. 

Today, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) held a hearing titled, “A Path to Sustainability: Recommendations from the President’s Task Force on the United States Postal Service” (USPS), in order to evaluate the findings and recommendations of the White House Postal Task Force that were laid out in their December, 2018 report. 

The White House released its $4.7 trillion budget proposal 

The House of Representatives voted through the “For the People Act of 2019” (H.R. 1)

The House and Senate were in session this week with work being done on a wide array of issues including addressing the President’s national emergency declaration, the electoral reform bill H.R. 1, and much more.

Today, a bipartisan group of 25 Senators reintroduced their anti-privatization resolution (S. Res. 99) for the 116th Congress, calling on the Senate to take “all appropriate measures to ensure that the United States Postal Service remains an independent establishment of the Federal Government and is not subject to privatization in whole or in part.”