[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 24, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1811]
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SA 475. Mr. SANDERS (for himself, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Merkley, Ms.
Heitkamp, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Peters) submitted an amendment intended to
be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 11,
setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government
for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels
for fiscal years 2017 through 2025; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:
At the end of title III, add the following:
SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO
STRENGTHENING THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE.
The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution
for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments,
amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports
relating to strengthening the United States Postal Service,
which may include imposing a moratorium to prevent mail
processing plants from closing, reestablishing overnight
delivery standards, recognizing the importance of rural
delivery, allowing the Postal Service to innovate and adapt
to compete in a digital age, or improving the financial
condition of the Postal Service by the amounts provided in
such legislation for those purposes, provided that such
legislation would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.
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