[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3629 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3629

 To rescind appropriations for the United States Postal Service in an 
amount equal to the amount expended by the Postal Service in the design 
             and implementation of its new corporate logo.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 22, 1993

    Mr. Coppersmith (for himself, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Kreidler, Mr. 
  Stenholm, Mr. Fingerhut, Mr. Canady, Mr. Crane, Mr. McCandless, Mr. 
   Poshard, Mr. Ewing, Mr. Archer, Mr. Hochbrueckner, Mr. Taylor of 
Mississippi, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, Mr. Lancaster, Mr. Kingston, and 
Mr. Gallegly) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
 To rescind appropriations for the United States Postal Service in an 
amount equal to the amount expended by the Postal Service in the design 
             and implementation of its new corporate logo.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Postal Service Fiscal Responsibility 
Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that--
            (1) the decision by the United States Postal Service to 
        change its corporate logo is inconsistent with tight budgetary 
        times;
            (2) the United States Postal Service should concentrate on 
        more substantive means of improving its image among the public, 
        such as increasing the reliability of mail delivery, promoting 
        excellence in customer service, and fulfilling claims of job 
        reductions;
            (3) the Federal Government should act in a fiscally 
        responsible manner, and should eschew cheap and tawdry 
        approaches to image improvement at public expense; and
            (4) the rescission of funds provided for in this Act, which 
        will take effect only if the United States Postal Service 
        persists in its plans for a new corporate logo, is a legitimate 
        exercise of the congressional power of the purse.

SEC. 3. RESCISSION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    Of the funds made available for ``POSTAL SERVICE--Payment to the 
Postal Service Fund'' in the Treasury, Postal Service, and General 
Government Appropriations Act, 1994 (Public Law 103-123), $6,600,000 
shall be rescinded on January 1, 1994, unless, prior to such date, the 
Postmaster General notifies the Congress that the United States Postal 
Service will not proceed with the adoption and implementation of a new 
corporate logo.

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