After weeks of chaos — late and lost mail, long lines at alternate post offices in the wake of the July fire at the Airport Road Post Office in West Chester — U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-6) is pushing on Postmaster General Louis DeJoy for answers and a plan to cope with the loss of the regional U.S. Mail distribution center — and commit to rebuild the burned out Airport Road facility.
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WASHINGTON — When Rep. Chrissy Houlahan was a little girl growing up on naval bases, it was drilled into her how precious military pay was. “My mother would walk around with envelopes of cash every month that this was for food, and this one was for clothes and this one was for medicine. She would open her envelopes for food at the commissary,” the Democrat from Pennsylvania said Tuesday. Houlahan’s father was a Navy aviator. Rand Corporation published a study in 2023 showing more than 25% of active-duty service members lack consistent access to enough food for their households. The study, which Congress directed the Pentagon to sponsor as part of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, also found 15.4% of troops would be classified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as not having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food. Houlahan, along with six other lawmakers, placed 325 flags on the National Mall to represent and bring awareness to the 325,000 service members who are considered food insecure, according to With Honor Action, a nonprofit that promotes and advances veteran leadership in public service. The group hosted the event with lawmakers on Tuesday near the Capitol.
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REP. HOULAHAN: I do, and I can draw a straight line to it. My father was born in Poland. He was born in 1942 into a Jewish family. He and his mother survived the Holocaust. I'm here, I'm here in America because he was able to survive and came here and had a thriving naval career, and now I'm a member of Congress one generation later. That is because of the constant war that goes over that part of our of our world, starting back in the Huns. And I think it's really important that we talk to the Polish-American population, as well as everybody from the kind of Eastern Europe area, because it's not that long ago that World War Two was and that is absolutely something that can repeat itself if we don't support the Ukrainians, and we don't support their fight for their democracy, which is their fight for all of our democracies. Also, importantly as a Pennsylvanian, the Lithuanian National Guard is our partner country, and so our men and women are in Lithuania at this moment, within harm's way, if we don't help Ukraine. So I do think it's absolutely an issue that makes sense and that we should talk about in places like Pennsylvania.
Read MoreRep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) said Sunday that it is critical for the bipartisan task force investigating the assassination attempts against former President Trump to work swiftly and in a bipartisan fashion.
“It’s really important that this group works bipartisanly and quickly to be able to understand what happened, to be able to make sure that it doesn’t happen again, and to your conversation with Senator Rubio, to make sure that we restore the faith and trust with the American people in the institutions such as law enforcement and the Congress,” Houlahan said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” referencing an earlier interview with the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
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