{"id":5133,"date":"2012-09-16T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T14:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=5133"},"modified":"2012-09-16T09:06:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T14:06:12","slug":"napus-a-curious-issa-letter-to-the-president-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2012\/09\/16\/napus-a-curious-issa-letter-to-the-president-of-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"NAPUS: A Curious Issa Letter to the President of the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NAPUS4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5134\" title=\"NAPUS\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NAPUS4-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent President Obama a letter, requesting that he \u2014 the President of the U.S. \u2014 propose three postal provisions to a House drafted stop-gap government spending bill. And, today, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) blamed House Democrats for the failure of the House majority \u2014 the GOP \u2014 to bring up a postal bill. With only two legislative days left before Congress recesses until after the November 6 election, these are indeed strange times. To read about these peculiar incidents, read the latest edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.napus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/9.8.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">eNAPUS Legislative and Political Bulletin<\/a>\u00a0(PDF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent President Obama a letter, requesting that he \u2014 the President of the U.S. \u2014 propose three postal provisions to a House drafted stop-gap government spending bill. And, today, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) blamed House Democrats for the failure of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usps-new-bytes","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5136,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions\/5136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}