Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced the Republican members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on January 3. After approval by the Senate, Rob Portman (R-OH), Rand Paul (R-KY), James Lankford (R-OK), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Rick Scott (R-FL), Mike Enzi (R-WY), and Josh Hawley (R-MO) will sit on the GOP side…
By Tim Devaney – February 11, 2015 The new Republican majority in the Senate is turning up the pressure on the National Labor Relations Board, with a series of hearings and legislative attacks against policies that make it easier for workers to unionize. The hearings will put a spotlight on an agency increasingly held in…
Committee leadership taking shape for incoming Congress One of the first orders of business for lawmakers returning after the mid-term elections was voting on committee leadership posts for the 114th Congress. Those elections were held on Tuesday. With regard to committees of importance to the NALC, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) will no longer chair the…
(July 6, 2014) Congressional efforts to revamp the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service have run into a longtime roadblock – Saturday mail delivery. Top Republicans like House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and the Postal Service’s own executives say rolling back six-day letter delivery is crucial to the agency’s fiscal health – saving an average of…
Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree If we allow the GOP to destroy the United States Postal Service (America’s Oldest institution), it could mean no longer having your mail delivered to your door, rural customers having to go into town to pickup their mail, and exorbitant costs added to mailing a letter, and therefore,…
The deposed House Majority leader hoped to rescue highway funding with savings from moving to five-day delivery. A funny thing happened to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on his way to pushing an aggressive June legislative agenda that included a modified postal delivery schedule. He lost his Virginia House seat in yesterday’s GOP primary election…
With only two months before a crucial fund for highway projects nationwide is tapped, House Republicans and the White House touted dueling plans Tuesday aimed at avoiding a late-July construction shutdown. Speaker John A. Boehner told Republicans in a private morning meeting that leadership’s plan to raise cash for a temporary $15 billion road fix…
The Obama administration is not ruling out a Republican proposal to fund the nation’s highways with cuts to the U.S. Postal Service, the head of the Transportation Department said Tuesday. DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx emphasized that he and President Obama strongly prefer a four-year plan to refill the nation’s highway trust fund with new corporate…
