[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 114 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 114

  To authorize reduced postage rates for certain mail matter sent to 
                          Members of Congress.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 21, (legislative day, January 5), 1993

  Mr. Inouye introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
           referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To authorize reduced postage rates for certain mail matter sent to 
                          Members of Congress.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) chapter 32 of 
title 39, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof 
the following new section:
``Sec. 3221. Mail matter sent to Members of Congress
    ``(a) Any person may send any piece of mail matter, not exceeding 
four ounces in weight, for postage of 1 cent to (1) any Member of the 
Senate representing the State, and (2) the Member of the House of 
Representatives representing the district, in which such person 
resides, if that person uses a special stamp issued by the Postal 
Service for any such matter. The Postal Service shall issue special 1-
cent stamps to be used in sending such matter, and such stamps shall 
only be sold at post offices.
    ``(b) For the purposes of this section--
            ``(1) `district' includes Puerto Rico and the District of 
        Columbia;
            ``(2) `Member of the House of Representatives' includes a 
        Representative, Delegate, and Resident Commissioner; and
            ``(3) a Member of the House of Representatives elected at 
        large from a State having more than one district shall be 
        considered a Member elected from each district of that 
        State.''.
    (b) The analysis of such chapter is amended by adding after the 
item relating to section 3220 the following new item:

``3221. Mail matter sent to Members of Congress.''.
    (c) Section 2401(c) of such title is amended by inserting ``3221,'' 
after ``3217,''.

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