Pelosi to call House back into session to vote on USPS bill

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By AAMER MADHANI and MATTHEW DALY

WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday she is calling the House back into session over the crisis at the U.S. Postal Service, setting up a political showdown amid growing concerns that the Trump White House is trying to undermine the agency ahead of the election.

Pelosi is cutting short lawmakers’ summer recess with a vote expected the Saturday after the Democratic National Convention on legislation that would prohibit changes at the agency as tensions mount. President Donald Trump’s new postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, has sparked nationwide outcry over delays, new prices and cutbacks just as millions of Americans will be trying to vote by mail to avoid polling places during the coronavirus outbreak.

“In a time of a pandemic, the Postal Service is Election Central,” Pelosi wrote Sunday in a letter to colleagues. “Lives, livelihoods and the life of our American Democracy are under threat from the president.”

The decision to recall the House, made after a weekend of high-level leadership discussions, carries a political punch. Voting in the House will highlight the issue after the weeklong convention nominating Joe Biden as the party’s presidential pick and pressure the Republican-held Senate to respond. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sent senators home for a summer recess.



House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)


Read more: https://apnews.com/559a52649084ae8c53c7fd4117b9273e

[oldsoftie]

1. Good. Mitch will look like an ass. Or a bigger one. nt

[still_one]

2. McConnell doesn't care, he is following the fuehrer's orders

[Progressive Jones]

3. Cue baby-like whining from Jordan, Gaetz, et al. nt

[George II]

4. I posted almost the exact same thing here in LBN last night:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142561733

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

5. Difference is in the wording George II

The article you posted says might call the house , today's article says is calling back the house. You are right though-it is the same but different .

[George II]

6. This one says "to call", which means it didn't happen yet. "Anticipatory"!

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

7. ! Yes but the article opens up by pointing out

she is calling the house back to secession !- cutting short the lawmakers summer recess ! Oh what fun lol . Although you may be correct in that to call could be anticipatory ! Now I am confused lol.

[C Moon]

8. Makes Trump and his GOP freaks sound like mom and dad are coming home to stop their parteee.

[ehrnst]

9. I guess that all those cries of "Dems just went on 'vacation' when there's work to do!!!"

and can't fight were a bit premature.

[Maxheader]

10. Prohibit changes...good, good,

Now add to that return, install any equipment taken over the last 5 months,, and add to that,

Additional funding to bring USPS up to ballot machine numbers needed....

prohibit changes at the agency as tensions mount. President Donald Trump’s new postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, has sparked nationwide outcry