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H.R.2309 - CPR Act
To restore the financial solvency of the United States Postal Service and to ensure the efficient and affordable nationwide delivery of mail. view all titles (7)
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- Short: CPR Act as reported to house.
- Short: Commission on Postal Reorganization Act as reported to house.
- Short: Postal Reform Act of 2011 as reported to house.
- Short: CPR Act as introduced.
- Short: Commission on Postal Reorganization Act as introduced.
- Short: Postal Reform Act of 2011 as introduced.
- Official: To restore the financial solvency of the United States Postal Service and to ensure the efficient and affordable nationwide delivery of mail. as introduced.
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Your View: Letters to the editor (May 21)
The bill passed the Senate with a 62-37 vote. HR2309 would destroy the Postal Service as we know it. This is a terrible place from which the House would start consideration. Immediate action by the House is needed to help the Postal Service ...
Op-Ed: USPS put in peril by GOP, future brighter with democratic reforms
According to the bill summary, the last action on H.R. 2309 was its being "Placed on the Union Calendar" on March 29, 2012. According to the NALC, "Once that body [House] acts, the process will not be over. A conference committee would have to reconcile ..
Postal reform must preserve rural mail service
With these realities in mind, I proposed an amendment to the postal reform bill currently in the House of Representatives – H.R. 2309 – which would cap rural post office closures at no more than 5 percent of total closures in any given year ...
Postal Service ends another quarter in the red
Every day that the House delays, the Postal Service loses $25 million.” Sources on the House side have been unable to say when their bill (H.R. 2309), which passed the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee headed by Rep. Darrell Issa ...
South Florida's Pronto Post Comments on U.S. Postal Service Reform Legislation
Legislation has been advanced by the House of Representatives aimed at resolving the Postal Service’s financial crisis. H.R. 2309, the Issa-Ross Postal Reform Act, would give the Postal Service the freedom to restructure its network. Taking into account
Pension mandate behind woes
In the opinion of letter carriers, neither one addresses the problems facing the Postal Service. Both S1789 and HR2309 continue the prefunding mandate. Both bills also provide a pathway to the elimination of Saturday delivery. This would put 80,000 postal
Pension mandate behind woes
In the opinion of letter carriers, neither one addresses the problems facing the Postal Service. Both S1789 and HR2309 continue the prefunding mandate. Both bills also provide a pathway to the elimination of Saturday delivery. This would put 80,000 postal
Senators ask USPS to delay post office closings
The House bill (H.R.2309) would allow USPS to use nearly $11 billion in surplus retirement contributions and increase employees' contributions for health and life insurance premiums. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and ...
Greene discusses U.S. Postal System reform
“I fully support a fiscally responsible post office. I’m more in line with the Issa-Ross plan. (H.R. 2309) That doesn’t have any bailouts. It allows more power to the post office to make the changes that they need to make. And it would put ...
Owens discusses postal service
Q: Where do you stand on what’s called the Issa-Ross plan? (H.R. 2309 -- a separate postal service reform plan that Republican congressional candidate Kellie Greene supports.) “We think that plan would damage rural post offices to an ...
Playing Politics With The Postal Service
Late Wednesday, April 25, by a vote of 62-37, the Senate passed SB1789, its version of Postal Service reform. The House has yet to take up HR2309, its competing Postal Service reform measure. As usual in the current Congress, these two bills from opposite
Senate Passes Postal Reform
H.R. 2309, the Issa-Ross Postal Reform Act, would defer decisions about realigning the postal service to keep up with America's changing use of mail. It also mandates that USPS cut costs while directing it to consolidate excess facilities ...
Senate Passes Postal Reform
H.R. 2309, the Issa-Ross Postal Reform Act, would defer decisions about realigning the postal service to keep up with America’s changing use of mail. It also mandates that USPS cut costs while directing it to consolidate excess facilities through a GAO
Senate to Vote on U.S. Postal Service Financial Overhaul Bill
The House hasn’t considered its main Postal Service overhaul bill, H.R. 2309, which would create a commission modeled on the Defense Department’s base-closing commissions to oversee closing postal facilities. The Senate legislation would ...
Senate Approves U.S. Postal Service Financial Overhaul Bill
The House hasn’t considered its main Postal Service overhaul bill, H.R. 2309, which would create a commission modeled on the Defense Department’s base-closing commissions to oversee closing postal facilities. The Senate legislation includes ...
Post Offices Tougher to Close Under U.S. Senate Overhaul
The Senate plans a vote on final passage this week. The House hasn’t considered its main Postal Service overhaul bill, H.R. 2309, which would create a commission modeled on the Defense Department’s base-closing commissions to oversee closing ...
Unions push case to reform, not dismantle Postal Service
No other entity, private or government, must do that, Rolando says. But the House postal legislation, HR2309 pushed by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and introduced in the Senate by GOPer John McCain, is even worse, he told a Rutgers University seminar n Apr
YOUR VIEW: Congress continues assault on Postal Service
Or so it would seem based on two bills that are currently being discussed on Capitol Hill: H.R. 2309 and S. 1789. Although the proponents of both bills argue that these would save the Postal Service, both bills would actually accomplish just the opposite.
A few steps toward Postal Service reform
For people who have a mail slot in their front door or a mailbox affixed to their siding, the convenience of snatching mail without having to fully leave one’s abode or business would be on borrowed time if H.R. 2309 becomes law. As postal workers ...
Postal workers protest USPS cost-cutting: What does postal reform mean? [VIDEO]
The Senate bill, S. 1789, is called the “21st Century Postal Service Act of 2011.” The House of Representatives bill, H.R. 2309, is called the “Postal Reform Act of 2011.” Both aim to improve and restore the financial standing of the U.S ...
Letter Carriers President Says S.1789 Lacks Vision, Won't Solve USPS Problems
That may sound harsh, but he noted that, just last week, the postmaster general said he supports practically all of H.R. 2309, by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., which is a bill that "would effectively dismantle the Postal Service" and "is a recipe ...
The secret truth behind performance ratings?
The bill (H.R.2309) - introduced last summer by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) - would eliminate Saturday mail delivery, close mail processing facilities, increase postal employees' contributions to their health and life insurance premiums, and allow the ...
The secret truth behind performance ratings?
The bill (H.R.2309) - introduced last summer by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) - would eliminate Saturday mail delivery, close mail processing facilities, increase postal employees' contributions to their health and life insurance premiums, and allow the ...
CBO: House postal reform bill to save $20B in decade
The bill (H.R.2309) — introduced last summer by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) — would eliminate Saturday mail delivery, close mail processing facilities, increase postal employees' contributions to their health and life insurance premiums, and allow the
Shrinking a Behemoth
The bills are S. 1789, the 21st Century Postal Service Act of 2011, and H.R. 2309, the Postal Reform Act of 2011. Expected action March 26 by the U.S. Senate on S. 1789 did not materialize, as Sen. Joe Lieberman, Ind-Conn., a co-sponsor of the ...
H.R. 2309, Postal Reform Act of 2011
H.R. 2309 would change the laws that govern the operation of the United States Postal Service (USPS). Major provisions of the bill would: In addition, other provisions of H.R. 2309 would aim to help the Postal Service reduce its costs and increase its inco
House postal bill would save billions, CBO says
The cost estimate CBO released Thursday is similar to the office’s December 2011 analysis of the bill (H.R. 2309); the latest version estimates the costs and savings through 2022. The legislation, shepherded by Oversight and Government Reform Committee .
This Week in Congress: a burst of budget fever before (yet another) recess
On H.R.3309 - Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of 2012, and H.R. 2309 – Postal Reform Act of 2011. H-313 Capitol. You must add at least one tag to this diary before publishing it. Add keywords that describe this diary.
Trim overhead and match postal reforms to financial reality
At the core, however, are rural jobs and the cultural role of local post offices. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has HR 2309, which also promotes five-day delivery, and would gradually eliminate discounts for nonprofits and their direct-mail campaigns.
Business Mailers Rankled by Obama Call to End Saturday Delivery
The House bill is H.R. 2309. The Senate bill is S. 1789. --Editors: Bernard Kohn, Daniel Enoch To contact the reporter on this story: Angela Greiling Keane in Washington at agreilingkea@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this ...
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