Current temporary budgetary law permits the change, according to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, who stressed that Congress needs to do much more if the service is to live up to its mission as a self-supporting enterprise.
In January, the International Monetary Fund reportedly froze a loan tranche worth $12 million while investigating Ravalomanana's purchase of a new presidential plane, questioning whether it had been done according to the letter of budgetary law.
It is true that a stability pact has been adopted, with a budgetary criminal law that allows countries found drunk in charge of a budget to be punished for it.
The French court, the Constitutional Council, sided with President François Hollande by ruling late Thursday that France had already bound itself to European budgetary discipline through laws governing how the E.U. functions.
But we are denied the right to vote in Congress, and even our local laws and budgetary decisions are subject to regular Congressional oversight and overrule.
