8/1/2018 Yesterday, the Senate passed H.R. 6147, the Interior, Environment, Financial Services, and General Government Appropriations Act, without considering Senate Amendment 3459. If enacted, the amendment would have prohibited the use of appropriated funds from undermining universal postal services or moving forward with efforts to privatize the Postal Service. Last week, while the Senate was […]
NARFE reacts to the unfair proposed legislation in the Senate to reform the postal service Alexandria, Va. – National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE) President Richard G. Thissen issued the following statement today, expressing disappointment with both the introduction of the Postal Reform Act of 2018 by Sens. Tom Carper, D-DE; Heidi Heitkamp, […]
March 22, 2018 — The Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service (C21), an organization of the private sector mailing industry, announced support for the Postal Reform Act of 2018, introduced today. “C21 is very pleased that a bipartisan group of Senators has introduced the Postal Reform Act of 2018,” said Art Sackler, Manager of the […]
Today, Sens. Tom Carper (D-DE), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) introduced “The Postal Reform Act of 2018,” a bill that incorporates elements of both the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Postal Reform Act of 2017 (H.R. 756) and Sen. Carper’s “Improving Postal Operations, Service and Transparency Act (iPOST),” which […]
Senator discusses need to strengthen postal service with Postmaster General 7/19/17 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill discussed the status of efforts to strengthen and reform the United States Postal Service (USPS) during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing today with the Postmaster General. McCaskill serves as the Committee’s top-ranking Democrat. “We’ve […]
It’s hardly a surprise to many in Washington’s postal community, but the lawmaker who crafted the House’s bipartisan postal legislation says his bill appears dead. That is what departed House Oversight chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told The Hill newspaper shortly before his resignation from Congress became effective June 30. “You can continue to get frustrated and whine […]
Sponsor: Rep. Chaffetz, Jason [R-UT-3] Introduced in House (01/31/2017) H.R.756 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Postal Service Reform Act of 2017 TITLE I–POSTAL SERVICE BENEFITS REFORM This bill requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to establish a Postal Service Health Benefits Program within the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program to offer health benefits plans for […]
Reports a Positive Financial Impact of H.R. 756 on Federal Budget 6/02/2017 – Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published its report on Postal Service Reform Act of 2017 (H.R. 756). It is standard practice for the CBO to “score” pending legislation introduced into Congress in order to report its impact on the federal budget. […]
04/06/2017 – In order to have a healthy, sustainable, public Postal Service, legislation is necessary to protect postal customers and postal workers from USPS’s current financial crisis. The bi-partisan Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) of 2006 largely caused this crisis, sending the Postal Service on a severe downward spiral. The PAEA mandated the Postal […]
03/20/2017 – On March 16, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee “marked-up” and approved the Postal Reform Act of 2017 (H.R. 756). A mark-up is a formal process where a congressional committee can consider and amend a bill before advancing it to the full House of Representatives or Senate. Recognizing the need to set […]