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The House Oversight and Reform Committee approved a pair of postal reform bills Thursday that are soon headed to the House floor for a vote.
The 2021 Postal Service Reform Act has support from Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and is cosponsored by Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) and Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman Gerry Connolly (D-Va.)
Maloney said Thursday that the bipartisan postal reform legislation has been “years in the making,” while Comer said he believes the bill has “a good chance of becoming law.”
The bill now heads to the House Ways and Means Committee and House Energy and Commerce Committee, both of which have jurisdiction over Medicare, for possible amendments before it heads to the House floor for a vote.
‘I stand by every decision I made on January 6th,’ former Trump official tells Congress
Updated May 12, 2021;
WASHINGTON The former acting U.S. defense chief and former acting attorney general during Donald Trump’s last weeks in office defended their responses to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol under sharp questions from Democrats on intelligence failures and delays.
“The federal government was unprepared for this insurrection even though it was planned in plain sight on social media,” House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney said Wednesday at the panel’s hearing on the insurrection and the events leading up to it.
EXCLUSIVE: Two
Republicanlawmakers are leading 18 members of the U.S. Senate and 64 members of the U.S. House of Representatives in filing an amicus brief at the Supreme Court against selective abortions based on a fetal Down syndrome diagnosis.
Sen.
Ark., and Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-
Iowa, are leading over 80 of their colleagues in a brief defending an Arkansas law designed to protect the unborn with Down syndrome from invidious discrimination, according to the court filing exclusively obtained by Fox News.
The bicameral group of lawmakers is asking the court to overturn a lower court ruling that made abortions based on Down syndrome diagnoses legal, warning that the ruling could send the nation down the dark path of eugenics – the practice of selectively breeding people for desired traits.
Trump gloats as House GOP demotes Liz Cheney for calling out his election lies
Cheney had no defenders among Texas Republicans, and Democrats say GOP has abandoned integrity and rule of law.
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks to reporters on May 12, 2021, after House Republicans voted to oust her from her leadership post as chair of the House Republican Conference because of her repeated criticism of former President Donald Trump for his false claims of election fraud and his role in instigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.(Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Updated at 3:40 p.m. with more reaction.
WASHINGTON The House GOP ousted one of its top leaders, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, for refusing to stay silent about Donald Trump’s election lies, prompting the former president to gloat and Democrats to accuse the GOP of abandoning any fidelity to rule of law, or truth.