Democrats who backed her bill at the time are attacking her for it today as Maine’s U.S. Senate race gets ever hotter.
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Requests for November ballots on pace to shatter Maine record
The state is expecting 600,000 voters will cast absentee ballots — and an overall turnout of 75% for the Nov. 3 election.
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Maine postal workers demand funding, federal action to reverse mail delays
Postal union leaders are pushing for $25 billion that’s stalled in the U.S. Senate and calling for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s removal.
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Postal chief heads to hearings with political bull’s-eye on his back
DeJoy, the postmaster general, is set to be questioned over two days on Capitol Hill.
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Here’s why the Postal Service says it wanted to remove hundreds of mail-sorting machines
USPS officials and industry insiders say sorters are taken offline every year, though the 671 earmarked represents a substantially larger share of the agency’s inventory.
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Chicks shipped by mail are arriving dead, costing Maine farmers thousands of dollars
Several Maine poultry farms have received shipments of hundreds of chicks that died while being delivered by the U.S. Postal Service, either because the shipments were delayed or mishandled.
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Pelosi says postmaster general has no plans to restore equipment cuts
The House speaker says Louis DeJoy told her he has no intention of restoring removed blue mailboxes or sorting equipment and no plans for employee overtime.
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Two mail-sorting machines removed at USPS processing center in Scarborough
‘The damage is done. Those machines aren’t coming back,’ says the local union president.
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At least 21 states plan to sue USPS over mail delays, despite rollback of policy changes
Even after the postmaster general announced he will reverse his new policies, the attorneys general said his statement did not change their legal strategy, which is to obtain the force of a court decision to protect mail service.
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Postmaster general says he’s ‘suspending’ policies blamed for mail delays
DeJoy will appear Friday before the Senate to testify on mail delivery delays and service changes that lawmakers and others are warning could imperil the November election.