Schumer announces investigation into Postal Service policy changes

No time for politeness! Play hardball right now!

What do you think he'll do?

Do you really think he'll act on it?

And open up that little jail in the basement of the House, or wherever it is.

(Emphasis mine)



https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R45653

So, no there is no mention in the contempt process of Congress or the Senate sending the Sergeant-at-Arms to the subpoena scoffers' home to place them under arrest and bring them to the Jail at the Capitol.

Glenn Kirschner, former assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said Congress has the power to arrest, and has done so in the past:



https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/why-democrats-congress-should-use-inherent-contempt-force-trump-officials-ncna1058861

Seems reasonable to me.

I still don't think we have a lot of power here, other than public scrutiny and the perception that heads will roll in January if USPS management screws with the election.

Progress of a sort.

with findings such as:

1. Removal of blue mailboxes was no different than past years. 240,000 blue boxes have been removed since 1985. Due to reduction in letter mailing, there is less need for blue mailboxes. In fact, almost every originating site, home, etc., is there own mail box.

2. We have excess capacity in letter sorting machines as a result of the internet. We have 25 to 50% more sorting machines than really needed.

3. Delays were not due to sorting machines or blue boxes. Live birds, medications, etc., are not likely mailed through blue boxes or run through the flat letter sorters that have been removed because of excess capacity.

4. Overtime has long been an issue in the USPS. We encourage efforts to reduce overtime, including hiring full-time employees if more staff is needed.

5. In any event, the USPS will be held to a standard of delivering local ballots within 3 days of receipt. All ballots going to other states shall be delivered within 5 days. If necessary, USPS will approve overtime to handle influx of mail ballots, beginning mid-October.
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Truthfully, I would have rather our Congress people were concentrating on getting enhanced unemployment to those who really need it, after it ran out 3 weeks ago.

read my link in post 14. This is a long running plot and there's more going on here than meets the eye.

made up entirely of Trump appointees?

is expected to issue a public report within two weeks outlining how the USPS will ensure the timeliness of election mail and other critical services, Schumer said."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Governors_of_the_United_States_Postal_Service

It turns out, during Obama's term, McConnell was not only blocking judicial appointments, he was blocking appointments to the Post Office Board of Governors. They've been working on this for awhile. Good news is they only get to fill out the terms of the person whose place they took and all but one of their terms expires during the next presidential term, so this is one more thing Biden can fix.

of three members of the Board of Governors?

However, the two "democrats" were appointed by trump, meaning they passed their loyalty test (i.e., "kissed the ring." ) So all three members of the sub-committee (in fact, every member of the BoG) are trump loyalists. He appointed them all.

Oh, well, maybe there's some angle he sees that we don't.

n/t

Bush by essentially sweeping what they did under the rug in the guise of trying to get along with the Republicans as all that did was encourage them to behave even worse as we have seen.
No, we need a very detailed criminal investigation into what Russia did as well as any other corrupt acts that may have been committed by Trump and those in his administration not to mention the the Republicans in the House and Senate as its clear a number of them have likely been compromised by foreign powers.

Biden has no intention of sweeping this under the rug.

These guys are delusional

What does the Iowa caucus have to do with the USPS issues anyway?