{"id":11314,"date":"2015-06-18T07:13:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T12:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=11314"},"modified":"2015-06-18T07:17:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T12:17:09","slug":"house-committee-approves-amendment-to-restore-usps-to-2012-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/06\/18\/house-committee-approves-amendment-to-restore-usps-to-2012-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"House Committee Approves Amendment To Restore USPS To 2012 Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"

APWU – 06\/17\/2015<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>–\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The House Appropriations Committee approved an\u00a0amendment<\/a>\u00a0on June 17\u00a0to restore postal service standards, in a bipartisan vote, 26-23. Six Republicans joined all of the committee\u2019s Democrats to endorse the measure, which was introduced by Rep. Chakah Fattah (D-PA).\u00a0\"1aa-APWU-small\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The legislation would rescind the lower service standards the USPS implemented on Jan. 5 \u2013 which have wreaked havoc on mail delivery \u2013 and restore the standards that were in place on July 1, 2012. Following the vote on the amendment, the committee approved the 2016 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill by a vote of 30-20.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an important step forward for postal workers and our customers \u2013 large and small,\u201d said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. \u201cIf enacted, it will mean that management must restore overnight mail delivery within cities and towns, and that the 2- and 3-day delivery standards that were wiped out in January must be restored.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a vivid example of how the demands of postal workers reflect the people\u2019s demand for good postal service.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first step in a long process, however,\u201d Dimondstein said. The full House must approve the Financial Services Appropriations bill. The Senate also must approve a final appropriations bill.<\/p>\n

Legislative and Political Director John L. Marcotte said, \u201cI want to thank our locals, states, chapters and auxiliary for their hard work in reaching out and educating Congress about the importance of service standards. The APWU will do everything in our power to make this amendment law. With your help we can succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very appreciative of the legislators who voted for the amendment and of the postal workers, customers, union officers and staff who encouraged them to \u2018do the right thing,\u2019 Dimondstein said.
\n\u201cIf enacted, it will greatly improve customer service and strengthen the USPS.\u201d<\/p>\n

House Appropriations Amendment Vote Tally<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aye<\/strong>
\nRep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX)
\nRep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)
\nRep. Sam Farr (D-CA)
\nRep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA)
\nRep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE)
\nRep. Mike Honda (D-CA)
\nRep. Steve Israel (D-NY)
\nRep. Evan Jenkins (R-WV)
\nRep. David Jolly (R-FL)
\nRep. Dave Joyce (R-OH)
\nRep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)
\nRep. Derek Kilmer (D-WA)
\nRep. Barbara Lee (D-CA)
\nRep. Nita Lowey\u00a0 (D-NY)
\nRep. Betty McCollum (D-MN)
\nRep. Steven Palazzo (R-MS)
\nRep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME)
\nRep. David Price (D-NC)
\nRep. Michael Quigley (D-IL)
\nRep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA)
\nRep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD)
\nRep. Tim Ryan (D-OH)
\nRep. Jose Serrano (D-NY)
\nRep. Peter Visclosky (D-IN)
\nRep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL)
\nRep. David Young (R-IA)<\/p>\n

No<\/strong>
\nRep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL)
\nRep. Ken Calvert (R-CA)
\nRep. John Carter (R-TX)
\nRep. Thomas Cole (R-OK)
\nRep. Ander Crenshaw (R-FL)
\nRep. John Culberson (R-TX)
\nRep. Charlie Dent (R-PA)
\nRep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
\nRep. Charles Fleischmann (R-TN)
\nRep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ)
\nRep. Kay Granger (R-TX)
\nRep. Tom Graves (R-GA)
\nRep. Andy Harris (R-MD)
\nRep. Jaime Herrera-Beutler (R-WA)
\nRep. Scott Rigell (R-VA)
\nRep. Matha Roby (R-AL)
\nRep. Hal Rogers (R-KY)
\nRep. Thomas Rooney (R-FL)
\nRep. Mike Simpson (R-ID)
\nRep. Chris Stewart (R-UT)
\nRep. David Valadao (R-CA)
\nRep. Stephen Womack (R-AR)
\nRep. Kevin Yoder (R-KS)<\/p>\n

Not Voting<\/strong>
\nRep. Mark Amodei (R-NV)
\nRep. Sanford Bishop (D-GA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

APWU – 06\/17\/2015\u00a0–\u00a0The House Appropriations Committee approved an\u00a0amendment\u00a0on June 17\u00a0to restore postal service standards, in a bipartisan vote, 26-23. Six Republicans joined all of the committee\u2019s Democrats to endorse the measure, which was introduced by Rep. Chakah Fattah (D-PA).\u00a0 The legislation would rescind the lower service standards the USPS implemented on Jan. 5 \u2013 which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11317,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314\/revisions\/11317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}