Posted on 08/16/2020 3:00:55 PM PDT by Libloather
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democratic leaders are considering cutting short the August recess and bringing the chamber back into session to deal with the unfolding crisis at the U.S. Postal Service, according to Democratic sources.
The House could return to vote with the next two weeks, the Democratic sources suggested. The chamber is currently in recess, with no votes scheduled until the week of Sept. 14.
Pelosi and other top Democrats, including House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), discussed the possibility of returning early during an emergency leadership call Saturday afternoon.
Democrats are looking to address organizational issues at the Postal Service in the coming weeks, not to provide additional funding at this time, according to sources familiar with the discussion.
One option would be to vote on a modified version of a bill introduced by House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) earlier this week that would prohibit USPS from implementing a planned organizational overhaul that critics maintain would handicap mail-in voting.
Other top Democrats also floated addressing other issues, including expired federal unemployment benefits and voting rights. But Democratic sources said the immediate focus - at least for now - is preserving the Postal Service ahead of the election.
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Suddenly there’s a crisis?
There is no crisis
But not for stimulus matter...nothing like scr***** millions of people.
Pecker puss Pelosi discovers that the Post office is the weak link in her plan to win by mail in voter fraud. Not complicated.
Squeezing if the balls.
I don’t see a crisis. Everyday I get mail and everyday I throw just about all of it in the trash.
If they came by twice a week I would be fine.
Why do the Dems/media use this lie?
(What I always ask about fake news...)
Everyone of these people in Congress should take a %10 cut in pay. Hanging out at home. Letting Trump do all the heavy lifting.
This is October surprise # 20 or so in 2020.
I just keep snickering at the idea that an act of Congress — from either side of the aisle — would “fix” the US postal system.
Nancy found out the Postmaster General supports Trump , that’s the Crisis ,LOL
Same here. 95% is stuff I don’t want, and is similar to spam emails.
Lovely fantasy they are creating. Won’t help them.
House Democrats call on postal leaders to testify on mail delays
BEDMINSTER TOWNSHIP, N.J. - The Democratic-run House on Sunday demanded that leaders of the U.S. Postal Service testify at an emergency oversight hearing Aug. 24 on mail delays as concerns grow that the Trump White House is trying to undermine the agency during the coronavirus pandemic while states expand mail-in voting options for the November presidential election.
A CIA analyst I knew years ago told me face to face that monitoring a countries postal system, 100 percent of the time a failed ( privatized, bankrupt, etc) postal service always signals a countries’ demise. I found it to be historically true. Sooo...., naturally I have for ten years lifted my antenna for USPS news and tribulations, and hope our postal system stays afloat and not privatized, bankrupted or failed. No idea how the CIA’s observation came to be, but this current “ crisis” looks like a Harbinger to me.
Just one more indication of how much Dems are invested in the mail fraud vote.
Blithering idiots. If you’re not “social distancing” at a polling place, then you’re not doing it right. You’re SUPPOSED TO fill out your ballot alone, away from other people, or union enforcers, or the like. I think it was Wisconsin where they had an in-person primary with NO PROBLEMS at all. If you can knuckle-drag and loot and riot without restriction, then you can sure as hell VOTE IN PERSON.
What happens if shortly before the election people en masse start complaining they didn’t receive their mail-in ballot?
Pelosi should get the money back from Solyndra to help the USPS.
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