Congress Faces Continuing Resolution, Sequestration and Postal Reform

Lawmakers returned to Washington, DC, this week with a packed agenda. Topping the list of priorities is hammering out final details of a stopgap spending measure to keep the government running. Amid the election-year politicking, the list of unfinished business also includes legislation to restructure the financially ailing U.S. Postal Service.

The Senate approved a postal reform bill in the spring. However, the House version, which takes a very different tack to returning the USPS to solvency, has languished.

That has prompted Rep. Darrell Issa...to propose including an interim postal reform package in the CR to be introduced this week.