Pelosi called the House back in session to vote on the bill that would stop changes in Postal Service

Pelosi called the House back in session to vote on the bill that would stop changes in Postal Service

(Washington) – Nancy Pelosi said Sunday she calls home again at the meeting on the crisis in the US Postal Service, a political showdown amid growing concern the establishment that the White House Trump tried the Agency before the elections to undermine. Pelosi is scheduled summer recess cut on the Sabbath law after the Democratic National Convention with the vote brief lawmakers that the changes would prohibit the agency, such as mounting tensions. President Donald Trump’s new Minister of Post, Louis DeJoy just outrage over the delays, new prices and cuts sparked nationwide as millions of Americans are avoiding the mail polling stations during the vote prove the onset crown. Pelosi Sunday “At a time of a pandemic, the Central Election Post, is” written in a letter to colleagues that was expected to be out of session until September. “Life, life and the life of our American democracy are threatened by the president.” He made the decision to recall the House, after a weekend of high-level leadership discussions, leads a political punch. The vote in the House is to meet Senate Republican hero in the matter of the agreement a week named Joe Biden as the presidential pick and the pressure of the marked party. The Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell sent senators home for a summer break. Earlier Sunday, he asked Democratic lawmakers to testify that the leaders of the post in the event of August 24 Supervisory emergency occurring feel-mail delays. The Oversight and Reform Committee of the House said he wants to hear from DeJoy and the chair of the Board of Governors Postal Service, Robert “Mike” Duncan. With greater control of its activities, the Post is now requiring an increase in temporary campaigning rates from mid-October until Christmas, but not for first class letters. The agency did not immediately respond to requests for comment if the two men would appear before the House committee. But he said on Sunday it would stop its distinctive blue mailboxes from customers and members of Congress after complaints mid-November to remove the collection box will be taken away. “Will move the latest concerns of mailboxes customers since removed for a period of 90 days, while we appreciate the concerns of our customers,” said spokeswoman Postal Service Kimberly Frum. Democrats are expected to discuss the legislation for planning details in a conference call on Monday and were probably the Democratic Next Saturday, a senior aide to be at the meeting on condition of anonymity because the plans were private. The rules for voting prepared, “Turn for America Act” prohibits the postal service had to implement changes to operations or service levels on January 1, DeJoy in place, a major Republican donor and ally of the president, who took control in June on the agency is committed to modernizing the agency lost money to make them more efficient, and most of overtime for postal workers has removed restrictions for the transport and reduces the amount and the ‘ use equipment for e-mail processing. Trump said last week that it was an injection of emergency $25 billion requested by the postal service, to block and to provide a democratic proposal $3.6 billion of additional cash elections in the United States. The Republican president worried that e-mail on the poll could cost him re-election. The money for the place is the elaboration of an expected increase in e-mail in-aid to the ballot. Both funding requests were related to congressional negotiations on a new package of aid to the crown. On Saturday, Trump tried to massage his message and told to raise money, he argued for the postal service. He said he will surrender to other parts of the aid to democratic waste package, including funding for the states of debts accumulated before the loaded pandemic. But critics of the president have not been breastfed, arguing that Trump has made the calculation that the lower turnout would improve his chances of winning a second term. “What are you seeing, a president of the United States, everything you do, you can suppress the vote, it is more difficult for people to get involved put to the vote when people put their lives on the line Senator Bernie Sanders , I-Vt to go to a polling station and vote, “he said. In announcing the upcoming hearing, said Democrats in Congress in a statement: “The leaders Postmaster General and the upper part of the postal service must answer to Congress and the American people because they are pushing this new dangerous policy that the voices of millions of putting silenced bring threatened, a few months before the election. “legislators including Pelosi of California and New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney, president of the Committee, along with minority leader in the Senate Chuck Schumer of New York and Michigan Senator Gary Peters, the top democratic Senate Homeland Security and governmental Affairs, which controls the postal service. Earlier this month, Maloney DeJoy Committee invited to focus to a court hearing on 17 September of operational changes to the postal service, causing delays in mail delivery. But after Trump has confirmed in an interview with Fox Business Thursday that he is hungry, the agency more difficult to make money with an expected increase in mail-in election process, the Committee decided, its demand for the release of a DeJoy bewegen’und the chair of the board. a cash-strapped finance Postal Service has quickly become a top campaign issue it became a Trump expressing his unsupported claim that the mail-in increase will undermine the credibility of elections and democratic vote Repel. Trump, who spent the weekend in his New Jersey Golf Club, Universal mocked put to the vote as a “fraud” and defended DeJoy as the right person “to streamline the post and make it great again.” His chief of staff, Mark Meadows, tried on Sunday to critical stalls Trump tried to stifle participation in national and state polls show to fight a difficult path to re-election against Biden above. “I give you this guarantee the company: The US President does not bother anyone legitimately Casting his voice if the post office or anything else,” said Meadows. But Democrats DeJoy shape changes “a serious threat to the integrity of the elections and our democracy itself.” The agency meanwhile is now looking for a short time, to increase end-of-the-year rate, according to a notice filed Friday with post Regulatory Commission. The reasons: higher costs, increased demand for packages online because of the crown pandemic and an expected increase in the volume of holiday mail. The plan should select the rates on commercial packages of competition on the internal market, including Priority Mail Express, priority mail, first class services, package and increase return Parcel Service. Most of the proposed increases would be less than 10%. It ranges from 24 cents for Parcel Select service, which starts at $3.05 for an increase of $1.50 for the post of commercial express priorities, which starts at $22.75. The Securities Commission should decide on the proposals next month. The Postal Service has published the most popular government agency in the country with 91% of Americans have a positive opinion of the service, after a Pew Research Center poll in April. “As for me, is an all-out attack – are not even hide it – by the President of the United States, the United States Postal Service, undermine below the bottom, a mega-donor supplies to allow open things make Message to slow down, “said Senator Cory Booker, DN.J. Sanders was on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, while Meadows and Booker appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union”. relationships have helped ___ Madhani Bedminster, NJ Associated Press writer Lisa Mascaro to this report.
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