WASHINGTON — Millions of Americans would no longer get mail delivered to their door but would go to communal or curbside boxes instead, under a proposed law. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform debated Wednesday a bill to direct the U.S. Postal Service to convert 1.5 million addresses annually — 15 million over…
Web News Article #: 101-14 May 21, 2014 – The APWU is urging House Oversight and Government Reform Committee members to vote ‘no’ on the latest postal bill offered by Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), which would end “door delivery” for 15 million postal customers. The committee is scheduled to consider the bill (H.R. 4670) on…
WASHINGTON – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., announced the mark up of H.R. 4670, the Secure Delivery for America (SDA) Act, which allows the postal service to provide millions more Americans with secure clusterbox and curbside delivery. The Committee will consider the bill, cosponsored by Subcommittee on Postal Service Chairman…
May 20, 2014—Statement of Fredric V. Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee mark-up of the Secure Delivery for America Act of 2014: The 275,000 members of the National Association of Letter Carriers, who live and work in every congressional District in America, call on the…
May 20, 2014 Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has not been able to garner support for his extreme and anti-worker postal reform bill, H.R. 2748. As such, he has adopted a new strategy. He is now is attempting to move his dangerous postal reforms piece by piece….
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is floating a new postal proposal this week, and he intends to put before his committee on Wednesday morning, May 21. Unlike the previous Issa attempt, which replicated President Obama’s postal plan, the latest Issa draft bill would simply phase-out door delivery and replace it…
The author of the House postal reform bill seeks a compromise by adding Obama Administration proposals, but fears interest groups are sabotaging the effort. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) postponed a meeting of his Committee on Oversight and Government Reform yesterday because he failed to hear from Democratic members on their willingness to fashion a compromise…
Postal reform hit yet another snag on Wednesday after a scheduled House committee vote on a new piece of legislation was postponed due to a lack of bipartisan support. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, announced the delay just hours before a markup of his new bill overhauling…
