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Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe pledged that the Postal Service would not close any more post offices or mail processing facilities while Congress debates postal reform legislation.
Sept. 19, 2013—The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, which has Postal Service oversight, held the first of two hearings today on the flawed postal bill, S. 1486, introduced by committee chairman Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) and ranking member Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK).
Bill is ‘Fatally Flawed;’ Penalizes Workers, Cuts Service APWU President Cliff Guffey told a Senate panel on Sept. 19 that the postal bill introduced by Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) is “fatally flawed.”
APWU President Cliff Guffey will testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Sept. 19. The hearing will address “reforming and renewing the Postal Service” and a bill proposed by Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-DE) and Ranking Republican Tom Coburn (R-OK).
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 – A Senate panel heard today that millions of Americans do not have access to dentists because of skyrocketing costs, inadequate insurance and government policies that don’t pay to prevent problems that left untreated get worse and cost more for taxpayer-funded emergency care.
The four postal unions sent a joint letter to Senate Majority Harry Reid on Aug. 5 expressing “utter dismay” at the introduction of S. 1486, the postal bill co-sponsored by Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), the chair and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 – Sen. Bernie Sanders today issued the following statement on a Postal Service reform bill introduced late Thursday in the Senate that could end Saturday and door-to-door mail delivery and close mail processing plants:
NALC NALC Senate introduces misguided postal bill: Late on Thursday, the leaders of the Senate Homeland and Government Affairs Committee, Sens. Tom Carper (D-DE) and Tom Coburn (R-OK), introduced a postal reform bill, S. 1486. The NALC is reviewing the text of it in detail now, but at first glance we find that there are […]
(BIG SANDY, Mont.) – Senator Jon Tester this week won approval for his measure to require the government to determine how reductions in rural mail delivery standards are affecting Montana communities. The Postal Service last year cut certain delivery programs in rural states like Montana, claiming the change would save the agency money and not […]