{"id":4162,"date":"2012-04-20T16:03:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T21:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2012-04-20T16:03:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T21:03:50","slug":"senate-leaders-announce-agreement-on-amendments-to-postal-reform-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2012\/04\/20\/senate-leaders-announce-agreement-on-amendments-to-postal-reform-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Leaders Announce Agreement On Amendments to Postal Reform Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/APWU-News9.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4163\" title=\"APWU-News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/APWU-News9-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>April 20, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced an agreement April 19 to consider 39 amendments to the postal reform bill (S. 1789), with debate on amendments beginning on Monday, April 23. A cloture vote to end debate is expected Monday evening. If the motion passes, voting on amendments will begin on Tuesday, April 24.<\/p>\n<p>A 60-vote super-majority will be required to pass amendments and the final bill, and 18 amendments will be considered by voice votes.<\/p>\n<p>The sponsors of the bill introduced a revised version of S. 1789 on April 17, and adopting the substitute bill will require approval by 60 votes as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe revised version of S. 1789 is better than the original version, but we continue to have serious concerns about several issues,\u201d said APWU President Cliff Guffey.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy-nine amendments were introduced by the deadline on April 18; the agreement eliminated 40.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are reviewing the remaining amendments,\u201d said Legislative and Political Director Myke Reid. \u201cWe will call on union members to contact their senators about the most important amendments,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The APWU vehemently opposes some amendments and favors others, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/news\/webart\/2012\/12-037-s1789today-120417-revisedbillsummary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> [PDF] to read a section-by-section summary of the revised bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 20, 2012 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced an agreement April 19 to consider 39 amendments to the postal reform bill (S. 1789), with debate on amendments beginning on Monday, April 23. A cloture vote to end debate is expected Monday evening. If the motion passes, voting on amendments will begin on Tuesday, [&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-4162","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\/4162","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=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4166,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions\/4166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}