Mikulski (D-MD) fights for government jobs
Just like a Democrat to go on a ‘jobs’ junket and fight for government agency positions! How can she justify preserving government jobs when the Post Office loses $25 million per day???
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Harris, who is up for re-election in November, released a statement Tuesday on Mikulski’s letter.
“I support maintaining next day delivery standards in rural areas that would keep the Easton mail processing center open,” he said. “But the overall bill passed by the Senate continues the fiscal irresponsibility of a Senate that has failed to pass a budget for over three years. The Senate bill is a $33 billion bailout that fails to address the annual hemorrhaging of billions of dollars in Postal Service deficits that will have to be eventually paid back by current and future hardworking taxpayers.”
Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe also released a statement on the Senate bill passage. The Postal Service incurs a daily loss of $25 million and has a debt of more than $13 billion, Donahoe said. Those losses would continue, he said, based on the initial analysis of the Senate bill.
“If this bill were to become law, the Postal Service would be back before Congress within a few years requesting additional legislative reform.”
The Board of Governors of the Postal Service also released a statement that said the Senate’s action fell short of the service’s plan.
“We are disappointed that the Senate’s bill would not enable the Postal Service to return to financial viability,” the statement read. “Given volume losses we have experienced over the past five years along with expected future trends, it is totally inappropriate in these economic times to keep unneeded facilities open.”
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