{"id":4134,"date":"2012-04-18T18:29:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T23:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=4134"},"modified":"2012-04-18T18:29:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T23:29:59","slug":"senate-expected-to-resume-consideration-of-postal-bill-s-1789","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2012\/04\/18\/senate-expected-to-resume-consideration-of-postal-bill-s-1789\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Expected to Resume Consideration of Postal Bill S. 1789"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/APWU-News7.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4135\" title=\"APWU-News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/APWU-News7-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>April 18, 2012<\/p>\n<p>The Senate is expected to resume consideration of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/news\/webart\/2012\/12-037-s1789today-120417.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">revised version of S. 1789<\/a> [PDF], the 21st Century Postal Service Act, with proceedings broadcast and Webcast live on C-SPAN. Consideration of the bill began on April 17, and is expected to last several days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are analyzing the new provisions carefully and will comment once we have completed our review,\u201d said APWU President Cliff Guffey. The APWU denounced the original version of the bill, saying it would lead to degradation of service and the closure of hundreds of mail processing centers and thousands of post offices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAPWU members have done an outstanding job of letting their senators know where we stand,\u201d Guffey said. \u201cContinued vigilance is needed as the bill proceeds through the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the Senate votes on the measure, action is expected to move to the House of Representatives, said Myke Reid, APWU Legislative and Political Director. \u201cAPWU will have to pay close attention and remain active as the House considers postal reform legislation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/news\/webart\/2012\/12-037-s1789today-120417-revisedbillsummary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> [PDF] to read a section-by-section summary of the revised bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 18, 2012 The Senate is expected to resume consideration of a revised version of S. 1789 [PDF], the 21st Century Postal Service Act, with proceedings broadcast and Webcast live on C-SPAN. Consideration of the bill began on April 17, and is expected to last several days. \u201cWe are analyzing the new provisions carefully and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134","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=4134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4137,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134\/revisions\/4137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}