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PORTER, Texas - The U.S. Postal Service is still working to recover from last week's storm damage after the heavy rain.
The immense damage to the mail distribution facility still looks about the same as it did Thursday morning when the flat roof collapsed during heavy rainfall, leaving three people with minor injuries.
Between the damage and flooding at other post offices, FOX 26 News' Ivory Hecker talked to some people who haven't received mail in up to five days.
"I haven't gotten mail in my business in five days, so I thought I better come here and check it out and see why I haven't gotten my mail," Porter businessman Charles Felchak said.
People showing up to the post office in Porter were greeted with yellow tape and stacks of mail outside.
La depresión tropical sorprendió a muchas personas que apenas estaban superando la devastación del potente huracán Harvey, y ahora aseguran que nuevamente se encuentran en situación de emergencia. Lina Hidalgo, juez del condado Harris, dice que se están utilizando fondos locales para atender a los afectados y que se espera la recolección de donaciones para la asistencia. La funcionaria pide a los damnificados solicitar la ayuda, sin importar el estatus migratorio.
The United States Postal Service has temporarily suspended activity at multiple Houston-area facilities until further notice due to the impact of Tropical Storm Imelda.
Despite damage experienced at the north Houston mail processing facility, USPS says it is "working daily to return to full operations, as soon as we can safely do so."
USPS released the following statement Monday:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – La congresista Sylvia García (TX-29) se unió a sus colegas en la Cámara de Representantes para aprobar la ley bipartidista FAIR (por sus siglas en inglés), que pondría fin al uso forzado del arbitraje en los conflictos de consumidores, trabajadores, derechos civiles, y antimonopolio. Actualmente, más de 60 millones de trabajadores no pueden demandar a su empleador en un tribunal público si han sido despedidos o se enfrentan a un acoso ilegal.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) joined her colleagues in the House of Representatives to pass the bipartisan FAIR Act, which would end the use of forced arbitration in consumer, worker, civil rights, and antitrust disputes. Currently more than 60 million workers are unable to sue their employer in public court if they have been terminated or faced unlawful harassment. Forced arbitration has permitted employers and corporations to create a privatized justice system where the constitution's protections are manipulated in their favor.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Hoy, la congresista Sylvia García del distrito 29 de Texas se unió a sus colegas en la Cámara de Representantes para aprobar su proyecto de ley, la Ley de Protección de Informantes de PCAOB de 2019.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) was joined by her colleagues in the House of Representatives to pass her bill, the PCAOB Whistleblower Protection Act of 2019. This is Congresswoman Garcia's first bill to pass the House of Representatives, and it would establish a whistleblower protection program at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), like a program at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
A new Congressional bill proposes to offer cash bounties to people who voluntarily provide original information on potential audit-related violations to the U.S. regulator of audit firms.
The bill, called "PCAOB Whistleblower Protection Act of 2019," proposes to establish a whistleblower program at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board that will be similar to the whistleblower program at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The bill was passed Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives, and will be considered by the Senate next.
"I am proud of this bill and what it will do to ensure that the PCAOB functions properly and protects consumers and workers from bad actors that could jeopardize the future stability of our public markets," said Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D., Texas), who introduced the bill.
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Sept. 18 on oversight of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), examining specifically whether to reauthorize four provisions of the act set to expire in December. One could be forgiven for missing the hearing amidst the deluge of news this week. And it was anyone's guess going into the hearing whether it would consist of a substantive discussion of FISA, or whether committee Republicans would simply exploit the opportunity to continue to decry alleged government abuses of the surveillance law in the form of the FBI's now-declassified applications to surveil former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.