House Oversight Committee Hearing: Can a USPS-run Health Plan Solve Its Financial Crisis?

From Federal Times: Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe will testify Tuesday that the U.S. Postal Service could save nearly $7 billion in the first year of running its own health care plan, largely through eliminating the need to prefund retiree health benefits. But a leading federal health care expert will blast the Postal Service’s plan as […]

House Committee Releases Very Misleading Video On Who Supports Issa-Ross Postal Reform Bill

This news release and video suggests that the entire House Committee On Oversight and Government Reform and all Senators support the Issa-Ross-McCain Postal Reform Bill as well as the views on the USPS overpayment. However, only one member of the Committee has signed on as a co-sponsor for HR 2309. Very misleading on all fronts.

GOP-Led Panel At House Hearing Had More On Its Mind Than Liberating USPS

Analysis: House Hearing Sets Troubling Precedent APWU members across the country cheered when President Cliff Guffey stood up for postal workers at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on April 5, but the inquiry into the union’s tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement set a troubling precedent nonetheless. With governors and state […]

Oversight Committee Passes Bill Targeting Tax Delinquent Federal Workers

Oversight Committee Passes Bills Addressing Tax Delinquent Contractors and Federal Workers, and Federal Employee Performance WASHINGTON- The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today passed three accountability and performance related bills: two targeting seriously tax delinquent federal employees, grantees, and contractors, and the third expanding the probationary period for newly hired federal employees. “The […]

House Oversight Hearing To Examine USPS Workshare Discounts

U.S. House of Representatives, Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia Subcommittee On Wednesday, May 12, 2010, the Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia Subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled, “The Price is Right, or is it? An Examination of USPS Workshare Discounts and Products that Do Not Cover Their […]

PCMA: Altering Mail Delivery Schedule Could Negatively Impact Consumers Relying on Home Delivery of Prescription Drugs

WASHINGTON -A United States Postal Service (USPS) proposal that would reduce delivery of mail to five days could negatively impact the millions of Americans with chronic conditions who rely on the convenience and value provided by mail-service pharmacies, the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) said in letters sent to U.S. House Committee on Oversight and […]

Rationale for Five-Day Delivery Shattered at House Hearing

APWU News A USPS myth was demolished at House hearing April 15 — a myth that serves as the Postal Service’s rationale for eliminating Saturday mail delivery. In response to questions by Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Postmaster General John E. Potter admitted that predictions that the Postal Service would amass losses of $238 billion by […]

Congressman Darrell Issa Goes After Size of Federal Workforce

From Governemnt Executive Rep. Darrell Issa, the ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform, went after the size of the federal workforce in general this morning at the opening of a hearing on the sorry financial state of the Postal Service. He claimed that the Postal Service has “more or less” a third […]

Testimony of USPS Inspector General David C. Williams

Hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia House of Representatives Mr. David C. Williams Inspector General United States Postal Service Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, thank you for asking for our testimony today. The Postal Service’s financial […]

Testimony of PRC Chairman Ruth Y. Goldway

Testimony of Chairman Ruth Y. Goldway, Postal Regulatory Commission Before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia April 15, 2010 Chairman Towns, Chairman Lynch, Ranking Members Issa and Chaffetz and members of the Committee and Subcommittee, thank you […]