Why Congress should not get out of the way of the Postal Service

Posted on November 23, 2014November 23, 2014 by 21cpw

BY MARK JAMISON News that Ron Johnson, the Tea Party favorite from Wisconsin, will be taking over as chair of the Senate committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs has caused an overwhelming sense of panic among progressives and postal workers. Johnson will control oversight of the Postal Service in the Senate. There may be…

An incoming Senate committee chairman’s views are sure to rile the federal workforce

Posted on November 10, 2014November 10, 2014 by 21cpw

(November 9, 2014) Ask Sen. Ron Johnson about federal employee priorities and the first thing he talks about is his concern that the government’s deficit spending will reach $127 trillion over 30 years. That’s the prism filtering the view of this first-term senator from Oshkosh, Wis., a tea party Republican and former plastics businessman. His…