Bloomberg Government: The Post Office Can Handle the Vote But Still Faces a Reckoning

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At any rate, the postmaster general told the House oversight committee, he couldn’t be blamed for everything that went wrong at the USPS. “I’m not the COO,” he said. “I’m the CEO of the organization.” Republicans were understanding, but Democrats proclaimed astonishment. “You’re supposed to be a logistics expert, right?” asked Democratic U.S. Representative Jimmy Gomez of…

Reps. Gomez and Schneider Lead Call for IRS to Investigate NRA Tax-Exempt Status

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Los Angeles, CA —Today, Reps. Jimmy Gomez and Brad Schneider led members of the Ways & Means and Oversight & Reform Committees in formally calling on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to review the tax-exempt status of both the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the NRA Foundation.  In light of the recent reports of the NRA’s self-dealing and abuse of its tax…

Mother Jones: Congressional Dems Call On the IRS to Investigate the NRA

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Last month, New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against the National Rifle Association, charging the nation’s oldest gun rights group with decades of illegal financial dealings and misconduct and seeking to dissolve the organization. But that might not be the end of the NRA’s legal woes. Now, a coalition of Democratic members of the House Ways…

The Hill: Democrats call for IRS to review tax-exempt status of NRA

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House Ways and Means Committee Democrats on Tuesday called on the IRS to review the tax-exempt status of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and NRA Foundation. The members, led by Reps. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) and Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), wrote a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig following the lawsuit from the New York attorney general seeking to dissolve…

Los Angeles Times: Holocaust reparations, prescriptions and rent checks: USPS delays put Americans in jeopardy

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“This is a matter of life and death,” she said. Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Los Angeles) said he’s received 109 individual complaints about the USPS since July. Nearly 350 readers responded to a Los Angeles Times request for information about their experiences with the Postal Service; of those, 87% said they’d noticed a slowdown in mail delivery in recent weeks, and 13% said they’d…

Raw Story: Demands for removal of DeJoy intensify after Postmaster General shows he ‘doesn’t know the basics of his agency’

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Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.), vice chairman of the House Oversight Committee, told DeJoy he previously avoided “following other colleagues who called on you to resign.” “But I do think now it’s time for you to resign,” Gomez said. “Not because necessarily there’s this grand political conspiracy, but just the incompetence that we’ve seen when it comes to the Postal…

Spectrum: UCLA Study: Stimulus Checks to Undocumented Could Boost Economy, Save Jobs

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California’s 34th District Rep. Jimmy Gomez supports giving federal aid to undocumented immigrants through the Heroes and Cares Act and weighed in on how he would ensure the money stimulates our local economy, instead of being used for remittances. “I don’t think they’re going to be sending money home to help their family members when they’re in need here, right here," he said. Gomez…

Yahoo: Santa Monica Post Office Mail Collection Box Removed

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Democratic leaders across the country have been lashing out about what they call apparent slowdowns in mail delivery due to operational changes implemented by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. The Democrat-controlled House is expected to approve a $25 billion spending package for the postal service this weekend in an effort to approve operations. "We're going to pass a bill on Saturday to…

KABC: U.S. Postal Service mail controversy, slow delivery times spur protest in Venice

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But that is not the way Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi sees it. She's calling the House back into session this week for a vote Saturday on legislation to block the changes ordered inside the postal service. On Monday afternoon, three Congress members expressed outrage as the slow down in mail delivery is affecting people across the country. Representatives Maxine Waters, Nanette…