What distinguishes “taxpayer financed junkmail” from a necessary and powerful tool used to communicate with constituents? It’s a 200-year old question. First adopted in 1775 by the Continental ...

Members no longer need to hesitate before hitting “send” when dispatching constituent newsletters from their House e-mail accounts. The House Administration Committee approved Friday an exemption for ...

Since he entered Congress after the 1994 elections, Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.) has taken on, with little success, a Congressional perk that taxpayer watchdog groups love to hate: the frank. “The whole ...

An updated mail franking system was announced today in a partnership between the Bermuda Post Office and a local business. Susan Moore-Williams, the acting Postmaster General, said that the BPO in ...

Most of the franked mail is devoted to personal correspondence, and if 2009 franking expenses were high, he attributes them to the high level of interest in health care legislation. “We had a ...

WASHINGTON - House lawmakers spent millions of dollars on nonpolitical constituent communications - on the taxpayers’ dime - in the weeks before a “blackout” deadline before November’s elections, ...

OTTAWA - The controversy over New Democrat MPs’ allegedly improper use of their free parliamentary mailing privileges to blanket 26 ridings with almost 2 million partisan missives has put the ...