Mail-in voting

The House approved bills to expand in-person absentee voting locations and to limit timeline for absentee ballot applications.

Nearly 100 million Americans have already voted by mail or by early in-person voting. There were 138 million total votes cast in the 2016 election. 

Congressman Mo Brooks, R-Alabama, condemned recent comments by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, over Republican opposition to mail-in voting as “dangerous and divisive.” “Nancy Pelosi’s statements on MSNBC last night labeling Republicans ‘domestic enemies’ and ‘enemies of the state’ were dangerous and divisive,” Brooks said. “She should apologize and stop stoking anti-Republican sentiment … Continued

Congressman Bradley Byrne, R-Alabama, voted against the Delivering for America Act, a bill that would provide $25 billion in emergency funding for the United States Postal Service to maintain its present level of service. It would also block a number of cost-cutting measures and reforms that the postmaster general is trying to implement. Byrne released … Continued

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, is calling the U.S. House of Representatives back into session to consider massive legislation dealing with the U.S. Postal Service. Congressman Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, announced his opposition to the postal system bailout. “With lies and propaganda, the Socialist Democrats are attempting to convince the American people that President … Continued

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night … has stopped the United States Postal Service from delivering the mail. But a corrupt president hellbent on undermining an American election just might.  President Donald Trump on Thursday said the quiet parts out loud again, telling an interviewer on Fox News that he doesn’t … Continued

“Like voting itself, the U.S. Postal Service is vital to our democracy," wrote Sen. Doug Jones and 46 other senators to the U.S. postmaster general.