Author Archives: Paul Steidler
Recovering From Washington’s Fumble On The Opioid Epidemic (From InsideSources) With opioid deaths rising 29 percent during the pandemic, killing more than 55,000 Americans annually, Washington must do more to save lives. It can start by enforcing the Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention Act (STOP Act) so criminal cartels are [Read More...]
21 Attorneys General Call For U.S. Postal Service To Re-Focus On Mail, Not Packages Twenty-one Attorneys General (AGs) have taken the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to task for seeking to further degrade first-class mail service effective September 1 and for pursuing competitive package business at the expense of its long-standing and most vital mission: [Read More...]
Statement To Postal Regulatory Commission On Proposed First-Class Mail Service Standard Changes The Lexington Institute opposes the U.S. Postal Service’s proposal to lengthen delivery times, by degrading service standards, on approximately 39 percent of first-class mail. This is a dramatic and audacious change that will alter the very character of the U.S. [Read More...]
Postal Reform Should Eliminate Private Sector Subsidies (From RealClearMarkets) Both houses of Congress are finally moving ahead in a substantive, bipartisan manner to reform the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). The Postal Service Reform Act has many important and beneficial provisions. However, the legislation also has a troubling flaw, Section [Read More...]
Comments Of The Lexington Institute Before The Department Of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs And Border Protection The Lexington Institute provides the following comments and information for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in conjunction with the interim final rule (IFR) for Mandatory Advance Electronic Information for International Mail Shipments.
Since 2017, the Lexington Institute has consistently [Read More...]
Fixing Our Most Important And Vulnerable Infrastructure–The Electric Grid (From Inside Sources) America’s most important infrastructure is also our most vulnerable – the electric grid. It is old and literally on the screens of foreign adversaries (e.g., China, Russia, and Iran) who have been attacking it and will continue to do so. [Read More...]
Strengthen CBP Regulations To Reduce Opioid Deaths (From The Hill) The U.S. is squandering a major opportunity in the fight against the opioid epidemic by failing to take strong steps to identify and seize opioids shipped to America from China and elsewhere overseas. At issue is the centerpiece of comprehensive [Read More...]
End The Theatre On The U.S. Postal Service Governors Tomorrow the U.S. Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will conduct an important hearing with three of President Biden’s nominees to serve on the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors. In addition to vetting the nominees, the Senate has [Read More...]
COVID Costs And Major Reforms At The U.S. Postal Service On April 2, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) quietly announced it had received $8.6 billion for “COVID-19-Related Operating Expenses,” from the U.S. Treasury, that is taxpayers.
How the $8.6 billion amount was determined USPS did not say in its two-sentence [Read More...]
Big Oil Is Cutting Emissions. With Big Data It Will Do It Quicker. (From RealClearEnergy) The world’s largest oil and natural gas companies are sprinting to cut greenhouse gas emissions and making significant progress. By reengineering many operations through digital technology and cloud storage – Big Data – emissions will be cut sooner, and without [Read More...]