{"id":3988,"date":"2012-03-27T23:23:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T04:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=3988"},"modified":"2012-03-27T23:25:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T04:25:08","slug":"nalc-says-postmaster-general-supports-practically-everything-in-draconian-issa-ross-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2012\/03\/27\/nalc-says-postmaster-general-supports-practically-everything-in-draconian-issa-ross-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"NALC Says Postmaster general supports \u2018practically everything\u2019 in draconian Issa-Ross bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/NALC-News8.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3989\" title=\"NALC News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/NALC-News8-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>March 27, 2012 &#8212; Should we call H.R. 2309 the Issa-Ross (So-Called) Postal Reform Bill\u2014or could we realistically call it the <strong>Issa-Donahoe<\/strong> (So-Called) Postal Reform Bill?<\/p>\n<p>Today, during a hearing of the House Oversight &amp; Government Reform Committee\u2019s Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe was asked by Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) about Donahoe\u2019s support for elements of the service-destroying, job-killing Issa-Ross postal reform bill, H.R. 2309.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In response, the postmaster general admitted that he supports \u201cpractically everything in the bill.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Amash<\/span>: Chairman Ross and Chairman Issa wrote a comprehensive postal reform bill last year that was passed by the subcommittee and the full Oversight Committee. It is full of cost-saving measures that will revitalize the Postal Service. What parts of H.R. 2309 does the Postal Service support?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Donahoe<\/span>: We support the FERS refund. We support the ability to move and consolidate the network. We support the ability to move to consolidate from six-day to five-day delivery. Practically everything in the bill, we are in support.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GAV0kwTQF-E#t=3m13s\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to watch this exchange on YouTube. It occurs about 3 minutes and 13 seconds into the video.]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s disappointing that the postmaster general\u2014who is tasked with ensuring the health of USPS and should be focused on growing and expanding the Postal Service\u2014would so readily embrace legislation that threatens to dismantle USPS piece-by-piece and that has very little support in the House,\u201d NALC President Fredric Rolando said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nalc.org\/depart\/legpol\/pdf\/2011\/hr_2309_fact_sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read the NALC\u2019s Fact Sheet on our many problems with H.R. 2309.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongress needs to do its part to create legislation that will strengthen and improve the U.S. Postal Service as an essential component of American infrastructure,\u201d Rolando said. \u201cUnfortunately, the Issa-Ross bill would do neither. It would, in fact, degrade and destroy the USPS.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 27, 2012 &#8212; Should we call H.R. 2309 the Issa-Ross (So-Called) Postal Reform Bill\u2014or could we realistically call it the Issa-Donahoe (So-Called) Postal Reform Bill? Today, during a hearing of the House Oversight &amp; Government Reform Committee\u2019s Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe was asked by Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) about [&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-3988","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\/3988","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=3988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3992,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions\/3992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}