[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 633 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 633

   Expressing the sense of the Senate that Congress should take all 
 appropriate measures to ensure that the United States Postal Service 
 remains an independent establishment of the Federal Government and is 
                     not subject to privatization.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 18, 2018

Mrs. McCaskill (for herself, Mr. King, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Coons, Mr. Van 
 Hollen, Mr. Booker, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Jones, Ms. Warren, Mr. Peters, 
   Ms. Heitkamp, Mr. Reed, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Moran, Mr. Tester, Ms. 
     Harris, Ms. Murkowski, Ms. Hassan, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Blunt, Mr. 
 Whitehouse, Ms. Collins, Ms. Baldwin, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Carper, Mr. 
 Kaine, Ms. Smith, and Mr. Udall) submitted the following resolution; 
     which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
                          Governmental Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Expressing the sense of the Senate that Congress should take all 
 appropriate measures to ensure that the United States Postal Service 
 remains an independent establishment of the Federal Government and is 
                     not subject to privatization.

Whereas Congress has the authority to establish post offices and post roads 
        under clause 7 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution of the 
        United States;
Whereas the United States Postal Service is a self-sustaining, independent 
        establishment that relies on revenue derived from the sale of postal 
        services and products, not on taxpayer funds;
Whereas the United States Postal Service and the more than 500,000 employees of 
        the United States Postal Service are at the center of the 
        $1,400,000,000,000 mailing industry, which employs a total of 7,500,000 
        individuals in the United States;
Whereas the United States Postal Service serves the needs of 157,000,000 
        business and residential customers not less than 6 days a week, 
        maintains an affordable and universal network, and connects the rural, 
        suburban, and urban communities of the United States;
Whereas the United States Postal Service is consistently the highest-rated 
        agency of the Federal Government in nonpartisan opinion polls;
Whereas the United States Postal Service is the second largest employer of 
        veterans in the United States;
Whereas the employees of the United States Postal Service--

    (1) are dedicated public servants who do more than process and deliver 
the mail of the people of the United States; and

    (2) serve as the eyes and ears of the communities of the United States 
and often respond first in situations involving health, safety, and crime 
in those communities; and

Whereas the privatization of the United States Postal Service would--

    (1) result in higher prices and reduced services for the customers of 
the United States Postal Service, especially in rural communities;

    (2) jeopardize the booming e-commerce sector; and

    (3) cripple a major part of the critical infrastructure of the United 
States: Now, therefore, be it

    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that Congress should 
take all appropriate measures to ensure that the United States Postal 
Service remains an independent establishment of the Federal Government 
and is not subject to privatization in whole or in part.
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