Eleanor Holmes Norton: “What is the rationale, given how research-based most of your policies are? What is the rationale?”

I would like to thank subcommittee Chair Rick Crawford for holding this hearing on transportation regulations.

Mr. Speaker, today, I introduce the Federal Employee Short-Term Disability Insurance Act of 2026, which would make short-term disability insurance available to federal employees.

I urge the administration to move forward to finish this rulemaking.

However, in 2020, soon after Mr. DeJoy became Postal General, the Postal Service declared that 'postal police officers should no longer be assigned to investigate or prevent mail theft or protection of letter carriers,' end quote, except…