{"id":2343,"date":"2011-06-14T20:18:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T01:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2011-06-14T20:18:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T01:18:13","slug":"nalc-joins-rally-in-opposition-to-the-ryan-budget-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2011\/06\/14\/nalc-joins-rally-in-opposition-to-the-ryan-budget-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"NALC joins rally in opposition to the Ryan budget proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/NALC-News.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2344\" title=\"NALC News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/NALC-News-150x150.gif\" alt=\"NALC News\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NALC Executive Vice President Tim O\u2019Malley plus other letter carriers and NALC staff members joined a coalition of labor unions at the Newseum in downtown Washington to demonstrate our united opposition to the federal budget proposal written by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI). Rep. Ryan was filming a town hall segment with CBS News at the Newseum.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the crowd gathered at the Newseum\u2019s front entrance was Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD). Rep. Edwards made it clear that she ran for Congress to stand up for working families, and that means defending Medicare and all of its current and future recipients.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ryan\u2019s plan would overhaul the Medicare system as we know it and provide eligible Americans with a voucher to purchase private insurance. Rep. Edwards and everyone in attendance agreed that we must stand unified to say, \u201cNo to Ryan, Yes to Medicare.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NALC Executive Vice President Tim O\u2019Malley plus other letter carriers and NALC staff members joined a coalition of labor unions at the Newseum in downtown Washington to demonstrate our united opposition to the federal budget proposal written by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI). Rep. Ryan was filming a town hall segment with CBS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nalc-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","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=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}