{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-britt-introduce-bill-to-hold-u-s-postal-service-accountable/", "Tuberville,\u00a0Britt Introduce Bill to Hold U.S. Postal Service Accountable", "2026-08-04", "2026", "2026-08", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined Senator Katie Britt (R-AL) today in introducing the Postal Executive Responsibility, Fiscal Oversight, and Results-based Management (PERFORM) Act. The legislation would ensure the Postmaster General\u2019s performance pay reflects actual performance by prohibiting bonuses when the United States Postal Service (USPS) fails to meet basic financial, operational, or reporting standards.\n\n\u201cMillions of Americans rely on the U.S. Postal Service to receive bills, send invoices, and hear from their friends and family,\u201d said Sen. Tuberville. \u201cIn the private sector, if an organization is losing money every year, it would go under. The last thing we need to be doing is handing out bonuses to reward poor management. I\u2019m glad to join Senator Britt to introduce this bill to provide accountability and incentivize better results out of the USPS.\u201d\n\n\u201cIn just about any profession, you don\u2019t get rewarded for failing\u2014except at the United States Postal Service. It\u2019s time that changed,\u201d said Sen. Britt. \u201cThis is not complicated: if the Postal Service does not meet basic performance metrics, the Postmaster General\u2019s compensation should reflect that. No reasonable company in the world gives its CEO a bonus after failing to meet multiple performance metrics, and the Postmaster General\u2014who serves the American people\u2014should be no different.\u201d\n\nThe PERFORM Act would prohibit the Postmaster General from receiving a performance-based bonus if, during the previous fiscal year, the USPS reports a net loss, fails to meet nationwide service performance targets, receives an adverse audit finding, or fails to submit a required report to Congress.\n\nThe legislation requires this annual report to Congress detailing executive bonuses, performance metrics, USPS financial performance, and national- and district-level service performance. The report must be submitted within 30 days after the end of each fiscal year. To ensure compliance, the bill directs the USPS Office of Inspector General to conduct an annual review of the agency.\n\nThe PERFORM Act has also been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Representative Dale Strong (R-AL-05) and is cosponsored by the entire Alabama congressional delegation.\n\nRead full text of the bill here.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, HELP and Aging Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-08-05T07:37:37Z", "2026-08-05T07:38:44Z"]], "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://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tuberville-britt-introduce-bill-to-hold-u-s-postal-service-accountable/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.363351173698902, "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"}