A range of Senate Democrats – many from red states – have serious concerns about the U.S. Chamber’s bill to overhaul the U.S. Postal Service, adding a new impediment to Congress’s efforts to get legislation done.

But in the latest setback for postal reform, Democrats like Sens. Jon Tester (Mont.) and Claire McCaskill (Mo.) say the current Senate bill would do too much to, among other things, slow down delivery standards and eat into USPS’s remaining competitive advantages.

In the face of those concerns, the Senate Homeland Security Committee pushed back a scheduled Wednesday mark-up of the bill, released this summer by the panel’s chairman, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), and its top Republican, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.).

“There’s probably a dozen things that need to be fixed with that bill,” Tester, a member of the Homeland Security panel, told The Hill before the mark-up was delayed.
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