The ability to deliver the nations election relayed mail during the coronavirus pandemic. He testified before the House Oversight committee. The committee will come to order. Without objection the chairbj is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Without objection the gentlewoman from North Carolina ms. Adams as well as the tgentleman from illinois mr. Quigley will be permitted to join the committee and be recognized for questioning the witnesses. In addition, the gentleman from North Carolina mr. Walker will be recognized at there proper te to introduce his constituent. I now recognize myself for an openingg statement. Good morning. I would like to welcome postmaster general louis dejoy, and the chairman of the postal board of governors, Robert Duncan, too this oversigt hearing. And i thank you allll for being here. In all of our districts we are hearing from constituents about significant delays in the delivery of mail, medicines, food, and other supplies. These
Shes the 1st africanamerican running mate in u. S. President ial election history but cover harriss past as californias top cop isnt winning over all of the black line smarter movement. A warm welcome is 8 pm here in the russian capital and youre watching r. T. International with me nicky aaron. Now tensions in the the russian capital of minsk continue to soar and its citizens have already started to gather in the city center Armored Vehicles are reported to have moved in as well it all comes in the wake of sundays disputed president ial election which has plunged the country into chaos our correspondent reports from the scene. This is just the way or the way this was there to be honest its quite difficult to describe to you whats going on in victory square in minsk on the square there are women with families announce you can also see the women dressed in white with flowers in the hands remaining along independence avenue cars and buses which are passing by honking their horns in suppo
A News Conference on. Rations and mailin voting. We join it in progress. When we called our post offices to find out what happened, everybody said, well, these orders have come from above. And all roads lead right here. This headquarters. Learned was that dejoy had put measures in that sent down that slowed down the mail. They include the removal of sorting machines from post offices. Congressman star beans and i were involved yesterday, at the central the submission center, they had for of their machines and had been removed from the post office. That was part of the slowdown. As congressman hoyer said, if any of these postal workers had unlawfully delayed or detained the mail, they are committing a violation of the criminal statute. They could be prosecuted. That statute also covers Postal Officers. And that includes this postmaster general. And i can tell you Everybody Knows that it is unlawful to interfere with the post office in order to try to cook and fix and disrupt a United St
Rep. Hoyer good afternoon. As you may know, a recent development has occurred which is a good development, but it will not change what we intend to do. I am pleased to be joined here by senator van hollen, senator warner, Annette Taylor where is a nennette . Representative of what is to be frankfurt to close washington state. Representative sybase. Representative sarbanes. Representative brown is here. And representative wexler is with us. As you know, there has been a great deal of consternation, and that is a gentle word, for the actions that have been proceeding by the Postal Service, whose headquarters is. Ight there what President Trump and louis to ourre trying to do nations Postal Service is reprehensible. Not surprisingly, however, and quite probably criminal. I use that advisedly, but , 18rding to the u. S. Code u. S. Code 1703, whoever being a Postal Service officer or employee unlawfully delays there are a lot of other things i dont want to read it all for time sick because
Supplies, and work orders of other city services, such as department of Human Resources, Controllers Office services, and rent. We have six f. T. E. S with the Directors Office vacant since march of this year, and we have an open grant funded position that youre not seeing in this chart, just vacated last week that were working on filling quickly. We, like all City Departments were instructed to propose a 10 reduction. We proposed initial reductions amounting to 959,000 annually, and this was an across the board proposed reduction of almost 12 to our communitybased grant fees. Realizing the impact of these grant fees to the vulnerable populations and the populations these serve, the Mayors Office asked us to submit some lower alternative reduction scenarios. The Mayors Service accepted our approximately 7 reduction, which would come from the departments genderbased balance intervention program. Understanding that all of our grantees work serves vulnerable and underserved communities, t