[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 142 (Tuesday, October 21, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S10898]
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  SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 54--RELATIVE TO THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE

  Mr. DeWINE submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on Government Affairs:

                               S. Res. 54

       Whereas the United States Postal Service has successfully 
     supplied uniforms to its employees for 42 years under the 
     postal uniform allowance program;
       Whereas the postal uniform allowance program currently 
     provides business to more than 1,000 American companies 
     throughout the United States which, in turn, employ more than 
     10,000 American workers;
       Whereas the United States Postal Service has proposed a 
     new, centralized uniform procurement system that would result 
     in substantial loss of business to those American companies 
     and turn over control of the procurement system to a single 
     vendor; and
       Whereas the United States Postal Service has, in recent 
     years, become more profitable while continuing to use the 
     postal uniform allowance program: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives 
     concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that the United 
     States Postal Service should maintain its current postal 
     uniform allowance program and make necessary changes to 
     improve that program, rather than implement a centralized, 
     single-vendor program.

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