Jason Chaffetz
Representative Jason Chaffetz, Republican of Utah and chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said that his committee will still poke around in Hillary Clinton’s email issues in the new Congress, pointing out that new ones have emerged just this week for that State Department.
“I don’t want this to linger,” he said.
Mr. Trump may or may not get scrutiny. Mr. Chaffetz said it is not his job or plan to be Mr. Trump’s “cheerleader,” but that the six letters he has gotten from Democrats on the committee concerning Mr. Trump were “silly” because he isn’t president yet.
“The president is exempt from most of these issues,” Mr. Chaffetz added.
His committee spent eight years dogging President Obama over “scandals” that included gunrunning at the Justice Department, the I.R.S.’s slowdown of tax-exemption applications from Tea Party groups, Benghazi and, of course, the Clinton emails.
This year’s priorities will be postal reform; turning back Mr. Obama’s application of the Antiquities Act, which designated large areas of land monuments in some Western states; and changing pension programs for new federal workers.
Obama Watchdog in Congress Has New Target in Trump Era: Postal Reform
Dinosaurs die and new and better creatures are the result of the need for advancement… This Dinosaur will die and a new and better creature will evolve… If one is eligible, one might want to, make a conscientious and educated decision to take your earned retirement and go… It’s all about the timing and choices we make that affect our futures… The stress of an uncertain future, is sucking the life out of the people that choose, to tolerate the inept stupidvisors, that believe they are doing a good job… Just as their leader, Obamanation, wanted… C’mon Trump Team, kick some serious liberal a$$e$… Void this place of the nepotism that really has killed the Postal Service…
I never understand why so many people stay for 30 years and not seek employment elsewhere. Maybe it’s the pay, benefits of maxing out at 208 hours of vacation a year and sick leave that will accumulate to the end of your career. Look, I am not saying its heaven but if you hate the so called worst place to work, there are no chains on the doors. Go and find your happiness. We all have the right to freedom of speech so here is mine. I have 33 years in and any job is your mental approach in dealing with the challanges and soon I will leave this career behind me. I think some people like to complain and they will be complaining about something else and will continue to do so after they leave the USPS.
forget the reform nonsense…..Trump should burn the Post Office to the ground. 30 years in and I will say that it is the most corrupt, unethical, immoral, evil place I have ever seen. for the new employee benefit I would sell it off to UPS/FDX and give the older workers a buyout………po mismanagement should just be thrown out on the street with a tin cup that says “Trump-Make America Great Again”! and why not?
Sure glad I’m retiring in Feb. 2017… What a shite hole…
Nobody is going to overhaul the PO especially fixing management greed. I agree it needs an entire overhaul from the top on down, but it isn’t going to happen. This business is designed to break even. It’s a service to the American people. These games have been played for years and are never going to change. I had a postmaster, who started as a clerk in 1970, tell me that the 1st day on the job, a fellow clerk told him he wouldn’t be working Saturday’s much longer since Saturday delivery was coming to an end. Yet 47 years later we have discussed the same issue recently. So yes it’s the same game over and over. The unions are just to blame as much. While the nalc has gotten us some things, I still believe that they are more worried about their own bottom line. I have been a union steward for 10 years and have spoken with state and national leaders and they haven’t changed my mind one bit. Especially when I’m told not to question their leadership.
I want to commend carrier chuck in his spot on analogy of the total lack of union spirit at the top !! These national officers receive perks and raises every year while the people who are on the street (city carriers ) r watching another arbitration go up in smoke . The union will say they did this and the arbitrator made a fair decision . Been a carrier for 25 years and watched my money ( which pays for the the fast Freddy rolando and the silver spoon crowd ) go to a union which is now split in two categories, the Cca group and the city carrier .
Funny how arbitration will conclude next month after the new administration gets in with ideas of freezes and increases of health care and if we’re lucky 3 small 1% contractual increases …
Sorry Freddy and lack luster group my union dues will b invested in another venue which I will watch grow , as opposed to a union satisfied with comfort and raises at the top and the rest stuck in the lower level of the titanic .
Ice berg dead ahead Freddy rolando , which way will u turn the Nalc ? But I’m sure you’ll get off the sinking ship safely with your golden parachute thanks to people you left on the ship which will sink with most of the Nalc still on it !!
Do we need postal reform? In the form of ridding the system of corrupt and incompetent management, absolutely. Improving customer service and eliminating the CCA/PSE program? Yes, and revert back to the PTF system where new hires can be career after three months probation. Also, raise the starting wages and you’ll see a better class of people coming in instead of so many who work a while and quit or are so pathetic they get canned.
The enormous turnover rate the USPS management bitches about is their own damn idea, but they will never accept responsibility, nor will they admit shutting down plants and lowering standards is, either.
This is so anti business logical it’s ridiculous, but Republicans in Congress as usual want to take it out on the employees, because they hate the middle class and they hate organized labor. A Republican like this jerk Chaffetz want it all for themselves and their owners, big business and finance, and leave us with jack shit. Yet certain people keep voting them in, unwilling or incapable of seeing how they vote against their own best interests time after time after time.
Does Congress get money from unions? Yes, but it’s a comparatively paltry amount. The lobbies for UPS and FedEx give millions more to Congress to try to cramp the USPS and even are allowed on a not-so-secret board that allows them to actually have a say in postal “policy”. Are the postal unions just supposed to sit back and do nothing? Granted, the NALC, my union is becoming weaker by the day, but it’s all we current and retired carriers have. Carrier Chuck, you need to investigate a little more because your statement is nowhere near accurate, just a jab from a possible scab. Don’t bite the hands that are the only thing between you getting the pay and benefits you have and being a minimum wage flunkie.
So Postal Reform is going to happen this year?? Really? Why? The prepayment ended in September and we are making a ton of $ now thanks to the package business, and we get OT like candy on Halloween. So why do we need reform that the PO has been begging for since 2010 and nothing has happened? Because its merely congressmen and women throwing the “Postal Reform” out there and getting $ from the unions. That’s all it is.
it did not end, because the post office has not paid it for years!!
Being a postal employee of 20 years. It needs reformed. Not an expert at this, but things need to be done.