House committee calls on postmaster general to testify in ‘urgent’ hearing next week

By Haley Victory Smith

Published August 16, 2020 4:15pm ET

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House committee calls on postmaster general to testify in ‘urgent’ hearing next week — Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, left, is escorted to House Speaker Nancy Pelosiâs office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. Some clarity is beginning to emerge from the bipartisan Washington talks on a huge COVID-19 response bill. An exchange of offers and meeting devoted to the Postal Service on Wednesday indicates the White House is moving slightly in House Speaker Nancy Pelosiâs direction on issues like aid to states and local governments and unemployment insurance benefits. But the negotiations have a long ways to go.

The House Oversight Committee has called the postmaster general to testify in an “urgent” hearing on Aug. 24.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a few other prominent Democrats issued a statement on Sunday announcing that the committee is requesting that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the chairman of the U.S. Postal Service’s board of governors, Robert Duncan, appear before the committee next week.

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