Update: Facing Opposition to Harmful Postal Bill, Committee Cancels Another Mark-up
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For the second time in as many weeks, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs cancelled their plans to advance the fundamentally flawed postal bill, S. 1486.
In the face of serious concerns about the bill raised by several Democrats on the committee, as well as by postal unions and postal customers, Committee Chair Tom Carper (D-DE) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-OK) first cancelled a mark-up of the bill scheduled November 6th. Now, the committee leaders have again scrapped their latest attempt to mark-up the bill, which had been scheduled for Nov. 20th.
A committee markup is the key formal step a committee ultimately takes before a bill advances to the floor. Markup is a committee meeting where the original bill is “marked up” by amendments (changes to the original text). Committee members debate and vote on the amendments before any changes are made. Mark-Ups usually end with a vote to report the bill out of committee to the full House or Senate floor for further consideration. Not proceeding with markup is a good sign that the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs believes there is yet work to be done and currently not enough support to pass the bill out of committee.
Voicing their opposition to some of S. 1486’s biggest flaws, Democrats like Sens. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) say the bill would slow down delivery standards and eat into USPS’s remaining competitive advantages. “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.
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Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs has postponed ….again the markup of Postal Reform bill S. 1486 . The markup was scheduled for 10:am on November 20,2013.
2013-11-20 BUSINESS MEETING AGENDA-REVISION.
What’s up, its fastidious piece of writing on the topic of media print, we all know media is a impressive source of facts.
Tax payers don’t need to step in the Postal Service makes money on it’s own,it’s just that Congress takes Billion’s from us to pay their bill. The Postal Service is a public service just like the Police,Fire and,Military,only we make money on our own not with taxpayer dollars. Congress use’s the Postal Service for a CASH COW.
Kill Bill has the right idea.
After the PMG closes more plants to slow our delivery down less people will use our services.
With poor window service and delayed mail service it don’t look good.
Get real you are 100 percent right. Unions suck…..5 day here we come
The sediment of people FEEDS off the gov’t. If the gov’t encourages more entitlements than taxpayers put in, then it’s gov’t and people’s fault. If you PAY YOUR TAXES(meaning you worked your full quarters til you need an entitlement), then it’s actually an entitlement. If you don’t work, then you don’t deserve an entitlement. Start working at bottom of a restaurant then work to advance or move to higher paying job(based on YOUR EFFORT TO ADVANCE IN WORK FORCE) is a start of not abusing unearned entitlements. Don’t blame anyone else except you. Be PART OF THE SOLUTION NOT THE PROBLEM. Again, CONGRESS OPPOSITE OF PROGRESS.
Hey julio just for the record the biggest Union was the former SOVIET UNION, and we all know how that turned out…NO INCENTIVE TO GET OFF YOUR A S S AND WORK FOR A LIVING, EXPECTING THE SOCIALIST TO CREATE SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING, A WHOLE COUNTRY OF PEOPLE FEELING ENTITLED W/O THE NEED TO WORK…THE ROAD THIS COUNTRY IN ON…ONCE THE NUMBERS TIP TO THE SIDE WHERE THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE UNWILLING TO WORK AND EVERYONE FEELS THEY ARE ENTITLED TO A LIFE STYLE THAT THEY DIDN’T EARN, THE END IS NEAR…talk about clueless all you want but it will not change the facts….Unions killed the steel industry…eventually they will choke the life out of the American auto industry as they have most industries they have gained control of, next the education unions will be responsible for the biggest decline in American competitiveness due to Teachers feeling entitled without being obligated to their students to teach them anything…
AS for the separation of the wealthy from the poor, I’ve seen alot of people at both ends, and I’ll tell you that the difference is that the wealthy work their a ss off and the poor expect someone to take care of them…..
HEY GET REAL – I thought about it, like you suggested.
You are a clueless idiot.
Unions built the middle class, you monumental fool.
I guess you approve of the widening wealth disparity in this country.
Go **** yourself!
Joke!
The sun’ll come out tomorrow
So you got to hang on till” tomorrow
Come what may!
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow you’re alway’s a day away?
For starters?
Throw out that lame duck bill they did up about the funding retirement in a short period of time for one.
Offer buyouts
Open more services along with better service.
Work on better working relationship with the Unions.
EEO and other issues at an all time high costing to much.
Replace the PMG and do house cleaning top to bottom.
Employees keep their present healthcare.
Get real and keep it real.
I guess it gets pretty easy to see who’s in the Union’s pocket, when Tester says “there’s probably a dozen things that need to be fixed with that bill” , but doesn’t offer any concrete examples of changes to be made , just shows that he just wants to kill the bill , as the Unions want him to do
…I would be interested to see how much Union money he has gotten over his political non-productive career. ?.
Do nothing and let the sore fester until it kills the patient , then the taxpayers have to step in and Finance the big Unions cozy free ride…think about it…