For Immediate Release: Wednesday, July 15 2015 Washington, D.C.âThe head of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) urged Congress this week to reject proposals to weaken the federal Thrift Saving Planâs (TSP) G Fund. Congress is reportedly considering tapping the personal retirement savings of federal employees, retirees and members of the military to offset the…
Commentary By Rafe Morrissey June 16, 2014, 5 a.m. There is a shell game currently underway on Capitol Hill. The House Republican Leadership are trying to use the elimination of essential postal services as a means to pay for temporarily extending the exhausted Highway Trust Fund. Unfortunately for taxpayers and postal customers, the game is…
June 14, 2014âEarlier this week, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe recklessly endorsed the House of Representativeâ leadershipâs outrageous ploy to use massive job and service cuts in the Postal Service to âpay forâ a short-term extension of the Highway Trust Fund, which will run out of money in August if Congress fails to raise the gas…
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 leadershipâs plan to raise cash for a temporary $15 billion road fix…
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is keeping his options open on how to fund a new highway bill in order to help foster a bipartisan solution. âNothing has been agreed to, nothing has been ruled out, nothing has been ruled in,â Wyden told reporters Tuesday. âAnd the way itâs going to work is…
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…
Latest proposal would help highway fund House Republicans last week proposed allowing the Postal Service to stop delivering most mail on Saturday and to use the savings to keep the federal Highway Trust Fund from going broke. In a statement, USPS said, âAllowing the Postal Service to implement a five-day mail/six-day package delivery schedule is…
