[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 8 (Friday, January 16, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S244]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 49. Mr. SANDERS (for himself, Mr. Tester, Mr. Markey, Ms. Baldwin, 
Ms. Warren, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Franken, Mr. Udall, Ms. Stabenow, and Mr. 
Murphy) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 
2 proposed by Ms. Murkowski (for herself, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. 
Risch, Mr. Lee, Mr. Flake, Mr. Daines, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. 
Gardner, Mr. Portman, Mr. Alexander, and Mrs. Capito) to the bill S. 1, 
to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline; which was ordered to lie on the 
table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. PROTECTING THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE.

       (a) Moratorium on Closing or Consolidating Postal 
     Facilities.--During the 2-year period beginning on the date 
     of enactment of this Act, the United States Postal Service 
     may not close or consolidate any processing and distribution 
     center, processing and distribution facility, network 
     distribution center, or other facility that is operated by 
     the United States Postal Service, the primary function of 
     which is to sort and process mail.
       (b) Moratorium on Changes to Service Standards.--During the 
     2-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, 
     the United States Postal Service shall apply the service 
     standards for first-class mail and periodicals under part 121 
     of title 39, Code of Federal Regulations, that were in effect 
     on July 1, 2012.
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