Oversight Committee Dems call on USPS PMG DeJoy to testify

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Chair @RepMaloney just called on @USPS PMG DeJoy to testify at an urgent Oversight Cmte hearing on Aug. 24 to examine his sweeping changes and their impact on mail-in voting. #SavetheUSPS

Aug 16, 2020

Washington, D.C. (Aug. 16, 2020)—Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, invited Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to testify at an urgent hearing on Monday, August 24, 2020, on his sweeping operational and organizational changes at the Postal Service, which experts warn could degrade delivery standards, slow the mail, and potentially impair the rights of eligible Americans to cast their votes through the mail.

“Over the past several weeks, there have been startling new revelations about the scope and gravity of operational changes you are implementing at hundreds of postal facilities without consulting adequately with Congress, the Postal Regulatory Commission, or the Board of Governors,” Chairwoman Maloney wrote. “Your testimony is particularly urgent given the troubling influx of reports of widespread delays at postal facilities across the country—as well as President Trump’s explicit admission last week that he has been blocking critical coronavirus funding for the Postal Service in order to impair mail-in voting efforts for the upcoming elections in November.”

The hearing on Monday, August 24 will follow a deadline this coming Friday, August 21 for the Postmaster General to produce documents and information in response to a detailed, ten-page letter sent last week by Chairwoman Maloney, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, and the other Chairs and Ranking Members of the Committees with jurisdiction over the Postal Service and federal elections, Chairperson Zoe Lofgren of the Committee on House Administration, Ranking Member Amy Klobuchar of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, and Ranking Member Gary C. Peters of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Chairwoman Maloney also requested the testimony of Robert M. Duncan, the Chairman of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors, which “directs the exercise of the powers of the Postal Service, directs and controls its expenditures, reviews its practices, conducts long-range planning, approves officer compensation and sets policies on all postal matters.”

The hearing is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on Monday, August 24, 2020, in room 2154 Rayburn and will be livestreamed.

Read more here: https://bit.ly/2Y6hoI9

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. call me unimpressed, that is a clever quip but what are you really going to do that has teeth.

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2. well damn them for being in the minority in the Senate

...take another look. Several House legislators are urging state prosecutors to open investigations.

It's an old game to take a release like this and try and make it out to be the totality of the Democratic response. It isn't, and every confrontation by legislators should be amplified and encouraged, not met with tired old cynicism.

What I expect is public pressure working to force republicans' hands, combined with pressure from courts. They vote by mail too.

[bullimiami]

3. Inherent contempt. Get ready to use it.

If he doesn’t show up or answer truthfully, lock him up.
Fine him, hold him until he settles his debt.
Slow walk it when Trump tries to take it to the courts.

This man is a criminal. He has obstructed mail delivery, he has conspired to interfere with mail delivery, he has conspired to interfere with election mail.