The latest postal absurdity on Capitol Hill is being perpetuated by high-ranking members of the House Republican Leadership. Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) propose to bail-out the Highway Trust Fund with an almost $11 billion raid on the U.S. Postal Service. There is currently a…
Washington D.C. – Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below in response to a memo sent by House Republican leadership to House Republican caucus members late Friday outlining a plan to use revenue from eliminating Saturday mail service as the primary method of funding the Highway…
Web News Article #: 108-14 June 2, 2014 – APWU President Mark Dimondstein issued a statement June 2 condemning a proposal by House Republican leaders to raid the Postal Service treasury to shore up the Highway Trust Fund. The statement appears below: âThe proposal by House Republican leaders to use Postal Service funds to help…
As if the US Congress hasnât squeezed enough money out of the ailing US Postal Service in the last decade, lawmakers in Washington have now come up with a genius plan to cut mail delivery to five-days-a-week and use the savings on an insolvent federal road-building initiative. The US Postal Service has lost more than…
Rehoboth Beach â Route 1 safety improvements from Lewes to Rehoboth may not happen if the federal government can’t find a way to increase funding for its Highway Trust Fund, said U.S. Tom Carper. As a member of the U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, Carper, a Democrat, said he is pleased the bipartisan…
May 31, 2014âNALC President Fredric Rolando said the proposal by House Republican leaders to temporarily fund highway construction by degrading postal services would damage the economy while failing to achieve desired transportation goals. âThis is the latest attempt by GOP leaders at an end run, trying to cut postal services to provide money for another…
The shift would benefit both motorists and the USPS, Republican leaders argue. House Republicans are constructing a proposal to keep thousands of road and transit projects from grinding to a halt this summer by transferring funds into the nation’s nearly depleted Highway Trust Fund from the already money-losing U.S. Postal Service. But in a memo…
Washington, D.C., May 29, 2014 â The Greeting Card Association (GCA) issued the following statement in response to rumored efforts by House Republicans aimed at using the elimination of Saturday mail delivery as a âpay-forâ to offset a bailout of the Highway Trust Fund: âEliminating essential services like Saturday delivery in order to bail out…
