He also says she abused free mailing privileges as the third biggest user of the privilege in the House in 1993.

With great fanfare, Congress last fall tightened lawmakers' free mailing privileges.

Using the Senators' mailing privileges, the city hopes to send registration forms to each of its 2.8 million households before the end of this month.

The Senate provisions suspend members' free mailing privilege in an election year; the mail-happy House also needs restraint.

Both senators and representatives enjoy free mailing privileges called franking privileges.

This caused trouble with the government and the paper lost its second-class mailing privileges.

And there's still too much room for lawmakers to abuse free mailing privileges and other legislative resources in their campaigns.

Earlier this year, he was fined a reported $60,000 for misusing his taxpayer-funded official mailing privileges.

Several council members disapproved of using their taxpayer-financed mailing privileges - called franking - for what was frankly a campaign message.

But more are mailed to supporters back home using the Congressional free mailing privilege known as franking.