Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Committee beginning at 10 a.m. ET Monday. USPS Board of Governors Chairman Robert M. Duncan is testifying too. A longtime Republican operative, Duncan helped select DeJoy for postmaster general.
Expect pointed questions from Democrats about Postal Service policies that have come to light in recent months, and overwhelming evidence of a mail slowdown as an election looms in which many voters will cast ballots by mail.
DeJoy appeared before a Republican-led Senate committee Friday, and answered some questions — but left others unanswered and raised some new ones.
Follow along below.
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- On Friday morning, we published a rundown of the various concerns that election officials, members of Congress and the public have raised about the impact recent changes at USPS could have on the election.
- DeJoy cleared a few things up in his Friday Senate testimony, but left many questions unanswered.
- Some of the things we'll be looking for answers on today include cuts to overtime, a new policy preventing postal workers from serving as ballot witnesses, details on decommissioned mail sorting machines, and other policies that contributed to the slowdown — such as requiring trucks to leave before the mail is read for them.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Committee beginning at 10 a.m. ET Monday. USPS Board of Governors Chairman Robert M. Duncan is testifying too. A longtime Republican operative, Duncan helped select DeJoy for postmaster general.
Expect pointed questions from Democrats about Postal Service policies that have come to light in recent months, and overwhelming evidence of a mail slowdown as an election looms in which many voters will cast ballots by mail.
DeJoy appeared before a Republican-led Senate committee Friday, and answered some questions — but left others unanswered and raised some new ones.
Follow along below.
DeJoy was very much ill-at-ease last week. Which he will look back upon as a picnic compared to what’s coming for him today.
I sure halfway through he’ll suddenly remember an urgent appointment and have to cut it short.
I hope that after the hearing a House member brings up an intention to introduce a motion to impeach Dejoy when the House returns from recess.
Sheesh. Blinky McBlinksteen. Before a single answer!
In the Senate hearing, he compared the Post Office to a private business rather than a government service. It was not set up to be profitable. In his mind I wonder if other taxpayer supported entities need to be profitable, such as the military, Medicare, police and fire departments, National Parks, city, county, and state parks, etc. It boggles the mind when business types with no real experience in public service are appointed and fail to understand that government is not in the business of making money.