{"id":6792,"date":"2013-12-14T09:23:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T14:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=6792"},"modified":"2013-12-14T09:25:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T14:25:45","slug":"postal-markup-take-3-and-bitter-sweet-budget-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2013\/12\/14\/postal-markup-take-3-and-bitter-sweet-budget-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Markup \u201cTake 3?, and Bitter-Sweet Budget Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1a-NAPUS-small.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6549\" alt=\"1a-NAPUS-small\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1a-NAPUS-small.gif\" width=\"322\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper announced that he would take another crack at bringing S. 1486, the Carper-Coburn postal reform bill, to a committee vote. The scheduled date for the committee markup is Wednesday, December 18 \u2014 only one or two days prior to the year-end congressional recess. In addition, on Thursday evening, the House passed a \u201cbudget agreement\u201d by an overwhelming 332-94 vote that spared current NAPUS members any budget hits. At the same time, the agreement provided NAPUS members with an additional FEHBP enrollment option, self-plus one. Read about these items and NAPUS President-elect Tony Leonardi\u2019s visit to Capitol Hill in the latest issue of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.napus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/6.13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">eNAPUS Legislative &amp; Political Bulletin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: NAPUS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper announced that he would take another crack at bringing S. 1486, the Carper-Coburn postal reform bill, to a committee vote. The scheduled date for the committee markup is Wednesday, December 18 \u2014 only one or two days prior to the year-end congressional recess. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792","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=6792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6793,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792\/revisions\/6793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}