{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://amodei.house.gov/news-releases/amodei-statement-postal-services-rough-week", "Amodei Statement on the Postal Service's Rough Week", "2024-06-14", "2024", "2024-06", "Republican", "House", "NV", "Mark E. Amodei", "A000369", "amodei.house.gov", "amodei", "https://amodei.house.gov/news-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-02) issued the following statement regarding his continued opposition to the United States Postal Service\u2019s (USPS) decision to transfer some mail processing operations from the Reno Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) to West Sacramento, California.\n\n\u201cThis week hasn\u2019t been a good one for the United States Postal Service (USPS) leadership,\u201d said Congressman Amodei.\n\n\u201cEarlier this week, the Wall Street journal reported about the rough start to USPS\u2019s so-called \u2018modernization\u2019 plans (linked here). Unfortunately for USPS bureaucrats, the adage \u2018bad news travels fast\u2019 is proving true. The Journal painted an ugly picture of packages piled up on conveyor belts, trucks waiting hours for loading dock space, and bills, checks, and medications not being delivered for weeks on end.\n\n\u201cLast night, the House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) Subcommittee passed an amendment to the FY25 FSGG Appropriations Bill to provide Members of Congress access to USPS facilities without having to jump through hoop after bureaucratic hoop and beg and plead just to provide oversight. You can watch a video of me voicing my support for this amendment linked here.\n\n\u201cThis morning, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) provided me with an update on their audit of the plan to relocate the Reno P&DC to West Sacramento, California. Although the audit is not yet complete, I am encouraged by the work they\u2019ve done to identify USPS\u2019s justification for ordering the closure of the Reno P&DC. Furthermore, I\u2019ve had extensive conversations with the House Committee on Oversight about the best ways Congress can oversee the Postal Service. There is more work to be done, but I believe we are on our way to holding USPS leadership accountable for a decision that should be reversed.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:11:47Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://amodei.house.gov/news-releases/amodei-statement-postal-services-rough-week"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.2680843248963356, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}