Senate Dems hit back against Lieberman’s postal reform bill (The Hill)

February 14, 2012

By Alexander Bolton

A majority of the Senate Democratic Conference has taken issue with a postal service reform bill approved by the Senate Homeland Security Committee chaired by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.).

Twenty-six Democratic senators and Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) voiced their objections in a letter to Lieberman and other members of the Homeland Security panel.

“The Lieberman bill as it now stands will end the postal service as we know it,” Sanders, who organized the letter-writing effort, said in an interview. “It will allow the postal service to shut down half the postal processing centers in this country. You’ll slow mail delivery service and you’ll enter into a death spiral where fewer and fewer customers will use the postal service. It lays the foundation for shutting down thousands of post offices.

The lawmakers’ letter argues “that significant improvements can be made to S. 1789 before it reaches the floor,” referring to the bill number of Lieberman’s legislation, and that the signees “look forward to working with you to make that happen.”

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