Government affairs
When you cast your ballot on Nov. 4, it will be important for you to know who in Congress supports a strong USPS and who understands the value that letter carriers bring to the communities we serve.
NALC’s Government Affairs Department has been keeping a watchful eye this election season, determining:
which candidates have fought to keep six-day mail delivery throughout the repeated attacks on it during the 113th Congress.
which candidates are on the record in support of maintaining door-to-door mail delivery.
which candidates support postal reform legislation that protects letter carrier jobs and preserves USPS’ unique delivery network.
which candidates have worked with NALC members at the national and local levels to build new relationships and strengthen existing ones.
where there is a challenger running against a current member of Congress who has actively worked against the interest of letter carriers.
Below is a compilation of select candidates for congressional office—regardless of political party—who have supported letter carriers on some or all fronts, or those who local NALC branches indicate are continuing to build bridges with letter carriers on issues of importance to letter carriers.
As NALC’s political capital continues to grow, so does its influence on Capitol Hill. Let’s use this growing power to elect men and women who will support letter carriers in the 114th Congress.
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Rep. Terri Sewell
7th
Democrat
Rep. Don Young
At-Large
Republican
Sen. Mark Begich
Senate
Democrat
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick
1st
Democrat
Rep. Ron Barber
2nd
Democrat
Rep. Raul Grijalva
3rd
Democrat
Candidate Ruben Gallego
7th
Democrat
Rep. Kyrsten Sinema
9th
Democrat
Candidate Patrick Henry Hays
2nd
Democrat
Candidate James Lee Wit
4th
Democrat
Sen. Mark Pryor
Senate
Democrat
Rep. Jared Huffman
2nd
Democrat
Rep. John Garamendi
3rd
Democrat
Rep. Mike Thompson
5th
Democrat
Rep. Doris Matsui
6th
Democrat
Rep. Ami Bera
7th
Democrat
Rep. Paul Cook
8th
Republican
Rep. Jerry McNerney
9th
Democrat
Candidate Michael Eggman
10th
Democrat
Candidate Mark DeSaulier
11th
Democrat
Rep. Nancy Pelosi
12th
Democrat
Rep. Barbara Lee
13th
Democrat
Rep. Jackie Speier
14th
Democrat
Rep. Eric Swalwell
15th
Democrat
Rep. Jim Costa
16th
Democrat
Rep. Michael Honda
17th
Democrat
Rep. Anna Eshoo
18th
Democrat
Rep. Zoe Lofgren
19th
Democrat
Rep. Sam Farr
20th
Democrat
Candidate Amanda Renteria
21st
Democrat
Rep. Lois Capps
24th
Democrat
Rep. Julia Brownley
26th
Democrat
Rep. Judy Chu
27th
Democrat
Rep. Adam Schiff
28th
Democrat
Rep. Tony Cardenas
29th
Democrat
Rep. Brad Sherman
30th
Democrat
Candidate Pete Aguilar
31st
Democrat
Rep. Grace Napolitano
32nd
Democrat
Rep. Xavier Becerra
34th
Democrat
Candidate Norma Torres
35th
Democrat
Rep. Raul Ruiz
36th
Democrat
Rep. Karen Bass
37th
Democrat
Rep. Linda Sanchez
38th
Democrat
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard
40th
Democrat
Rep. Mark Takano
41st
Democrat
Rep. Maxine Waters
43rd
Democrat
Rep. Janice Hahn
44th
Democrat
Rep. Loretta Sanchez
46th
Democrat
Rep. Alan Lowenthal
47th
Democrat
Candidate Dave Pesier
49th
Democrat
Rep. Juan Vargas
51st
Democrat
Rep. Scott Peters
52nd
Democrat
Rep. Susan Davis
53rd
Democrat
Rep. Diana DeGette
1st
Democrat
Rep. Jared Polis
2nd
Democrat
Candidate Irv Halter
5th
Democrat
Candidate Andrew Romanoff
6th
Democrat
Rep. Ed Perlmutter
7th
Democrat
Sen. Mark Udall
Senate
Democrat
Rep. John Larson
1st
Democrat
Rep. Joe Courtney
2nd
Democrat
Rep. Rosa DeLauro
3rd
Democrat
Rep. Jim Himes
4th
Democrat
Rep. Elizabeth Esty
5th
Democrat
Rep. John Carney
At-Large
Democrat
Sen. Chris Coons
Senate
Democrat
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
At-Large
Democrat
Candidate Gwen Graham
2nd
Democrat
Rep. Corrine Brown
5th
Democrat
Candidate Wes Neuman
7th
Democrat
Rep. Alan Grayson
9th
Democrat
Rep. David Jolly
13th
Republican
Rep. Kathy Castor
14th
Democrat
Candidate Alan Cohn
15th
Democrat
Rep. Patrick Murphy
18th
Democrat
Rep. Alcee Hastings
20th
Democrat
Rep. Ted Deutch
21st
Democrat
Rep. Lois Frankel
22nd
Democrat
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
23rd
Democrat
Rep. Frederica Wilson
24th
Democrat
Rep. Joe Garcia
26th
Democrat
Rep. Sanford Bishop
2nd
Democrat
Rep. Hank Johnson
4th
Democrat
Rep. John Lewis
5th
Democrat
Rep. John Barrow
12th
Democrat
Rep. David Scott
13th
Democrat
Candidate Michelle Nunn
Senate
Democrat
Candidate Mark Takai
1st
Democrat
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard
2nd
Democrat
Sen. Brian Schatz
Senate
Democrat
Rep. Bobby Rush
1st
Democrat
Rep. Robin Kelly
2nd
Democrat
Rep. Daniel Lipinski
3rd
Democrat
Rep. Luis Gutierrez
4th
Democrat
Rep. Mike Quigley
5th
Democrat
Rep. Danny Davis
7th
Democrat
Rep. Tammy Duckworth
8th
Democrat
Rep. Jan Schakowsky
9th
Democrat
Rep. Brad Schneider
10th
Democrat
Rep. Bill Foster
11th
Democrat
Rep. Bill Enyart
12th
Democrat
Candidate Ann Callis
13th
Democrat
Rep. John Shimkus
15th
Republican
Rep. Cheri Bustos
17th
Democrat
Sen. Richard Durbin
Senate
Democrat
Rep. Peter Visclosky
1st
Democrat
Rep. Andre Carson
7th
Democrat
Candidate Joe Bock
2nd
Democrat
Candidate Patrick Murphy
1st
Democrat
Rep. Dave Loebsack
2nd
Democrat
Candidate Staci Appel
3rd
Democrat
Rep. Bruce Braley
Senate
Democrat
Rep. Kevin Yoder
3rd
Republican
Rep. John Yarmuth
3rd
Democrat
Candidate Alison Lundergran Grimes
Senate
Democrat
Rep. Cedric Richmond
2nd
Democrat
Sen. Mary Landrieu
Senate
Democrat
Rep. Chellie Pingree
1st
Democrat
Candidate Emily Caine
2nd
Democrat
Sen. Susan Collins
Senate
Republican
Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger
2nd
Democrat
Rep. John Sarbanes
3rd
Democrat
Rep. Donna Edwards
4th
Democrat
Rep. Steny Hoyer
5th
Democrat
Rep. John Delaney
6th
Democrat
Rep. Elijah Cummings
7th
Democrat
Rep. Chris Van Hollen
8th
Democrat
Rep. Richard Neal
1st
Democrat
Rep. Jim McGovern
2nd
Democrat
Rep. Niki Tsongas
3rd
Democrat
Rep. Joseph Kennedy
4th
Democrat
Rep. Katherine Clark
5th
Democrat
Candidate Seth Moulton
6th
Democrat
Rep. Michael Capuano
7th
Democrat
Rep. Stephen Lynch
8th
Democrat
Rep. William Keating
9th
Democrat
Sen. Edward Markey
Senate
Democrat
Candidate Jerry Cannon
1st
Democrat
Rep. Dan Kildee
5th
Democrat
Candidate Pam Byrnes
7th
Democrat
Rep. Sander Levin
9th
Democrat
Candidate Bobby McKenzie
11th
Democrat
Candidate Debbie Dingell
12th
Democrat
Rep. John Conyers
13th
Democrat
Rep. Gary Peters
Senate
Democrat
Rep. Tim Walz
1st
Democrat
Rep. Betty McCollum
4th
Democrat
Rep. Keith Ellison
5th
Democrat
Rep. Collin Peterson
7th
Democrat
Rep. Rick Nolan
8th
Democrat
Sen. Al Franken
Senate
Democrat
Rep. Bennie Thompson
2nd
Democrat
Rep. William Lacy Clay
1st
Democrat
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver
5th
Democrat
Rep. Sam Graves
6th
Republican
Candidate John Lewis
At-Large
Democrat
Candidate Brad Ashford
2nd
Democrat
Rep. Dina Titus
1st
Democrat
Candidate Erin Bilbray
3rd
Democrat
Rep. Steven Horsford
4th
Democrat
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter
1st
Democrat
Rep. Ann Kuster
2nd
Democrat
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen
Senate
Democrat
Candidate Donald Norcross
1st
Democrat
Rep. Frank LoBiondo
2nd
Republican
Candidate Aimee Belgard
3rd
Democrat
Rep. Chris Smith
4th
Republican
Rep. Frank Pallone
6th
Democrat
Rep. Leonard Lance
7th
Republican
Rep. Albio Sires
8th
Democrat
Rep. Bill Pascrell
9th
Democrat
Rep. Donald Payne
10th
Democrat
Candidate Bonnie Watson Coleman
12th
Democrat
Sen. Cory Booker
Senate
Democrat
Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham
1st
Democrat
Candidate Roxanne Lara
2nd
Democrat
Rep. Ben Ray Lujan
3rd
Democrat
Sen. Tom Udall
Senate
Democrat
Rep. Timothy Bishop
1st
Democrat
Rep. Peter King
2nd
Republican
Rep. Steve Israel
3rd
Democrat
Candidate Kathleen Rice
4th
Democrat
Rep. Gregory Meeks
5th
Democrat
Rep. Grace Meng
6th
Democrat
Rep. Nydia Velazquez
7th
Democrat
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
8th
Democrat
Rep. Yvette Clarke
9th
Democrat
Rep. Jerrold Nadler
10th
Democrat
Rep. Michael Grimm
11th
Republican
Rep. Carolyn Maloney
12th
Democrat
Rep. Charles Rangel
13th
Democrat
Rep. Joseph Crowley
14th
Democrat
Rep. Jose Serrano
15th
Democrat
Rep. Eliot Engel
16th
Democrat
Rep. Nita Lowey
17th
Democrat
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney
18th
Democrat
Rep. Chris Gibson
19th
Republican
Rep. Paul Tonko
20th
Democrat
Candidate Aaron Woolf
21st
Democrat
Rep. Richard Hanna
22nd
Republican
Candidate Martha Robertson
23rd
Democrat
Rep. Dan Maffei
24th
Democrat
Rep. Louise Slaughter
25th
Democrat
Rep. Brian Higgins
26th
Democrat
Rep. G.K. Butterfield
1st
Democrat
Rep. David Price
4th
Democrat
Candidate Alma Adams
12th
Democrat
Sen. Kay Hagan
Senate
Democrat
Rep. Joyce Beatty
3rd
Democrat
Rep. Bill Johnson
6th
Republican
Rep. Marcy Kaptur
9th
Democrat
Rep. Marcia Fudge
11th
Democrat
Rep. Tim Ryan
13th
Democrat
Rep. David Joyce
14th
Republican
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici
1st
Democrat
Rep. Earl Blumenauer
3rd
Democrat
Rep. Peter DeFazio
4th
Democrat
Rep. Kurt Schrader
5th
Democrat
Sen. Jeff Merkley
Senate
Democrat
Rep. Robert Brady
1st
Democrat
Rep. Chaka Fattah
2nd
Democrat
Candidate Manan Trivedi
6th
Democrat
Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick
8th
Republican
Rep. Tom Marino
10th
Republican
Rep. Lou Barletta
11th
Republican
Candidate Erin McClelland
12th
Democrat
Candidate Brendan Boyle
13th
Democrat
Rep. Mike Doyle
14th
Democrat
Rep. Matt Cartwright
17th
Democrat
Rep. Tim Murphy
18th
Republican
Rep. David Cicilline
1st
Democrat
Rep. Jim Langevin
2nd
Democrat
Sen. Jack Reed
Senate
Democrat
Rep. James Clyburn
6th
Democrat
Rep. Kristi Noem
At-Large
Republican
Rep. Jim Cooper
5th
Democrat
Rep. Steve Cohen
9th
Democrat
Rep. Al Green
9th
Democrat
Rep. Ruben Hinojosa
15th
Democrat
Rep. Beto O'Rourke
16th
Democrat
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
18th
Democrat
Rep. Joaquin Castro
20th
Democrat
Rep. Pete Gallego
23rd
Democrat
Candidate Wesley Reed
27th
Democrat
Rep. Henry Cuellar
28th
Democrat
Rep. Gene Green
29th
Democrat
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson
30th
Democrat
Rep. Marc Veasey
33rd
Democrat
Rep. Filemon Vela
34th
Democrat
Rep. Lloyd Doggett
35th
Democrat
Rep. Peter Welch
At-Large
Democrat
Rep. Robert Scott
3rd
Democrat
Candidate Don Beyer
8th
Democrat
Candidate John Foust
10th
Democrat
Rep. Gerald Connolly
11th
Democrat
Sen. Mark Warner
Senate
Democrat
Rep. Suzan DelBene
1st
Democrat
Rep. Rick Larsen
2nd
Democrat
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler
3rd
Republican
Rep. Derek Kilmer
6th
Democrat
Rep. Jim McDermott
7th
Democrat
Rep. Adam Smith
9th
Democrat
Rep. Denny Heck
10th
Democrat
Rep. David McKinley
1st
Republican
Candidate Nick Casey
2nd
Democrat
Rep. Nick Rahall
3rd
Democrat
Candidate Natalie Tennant
Senator
Democrat
Rep. Mark Pocan
2nd
Democrat
Rep. Ron Kind
3rd
Democrat
Rep. Gwen Moore
4th
Democrat
