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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25. 1976
$1 billion stamp
Sticky postal state
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate
passed a bill Tuesday providing an
additional $1 billion subsidy for the
debt-ridden Postal Service and tem
porarily barring postal rate increases
and service cutbacks. The vote was
79-9.
Designed as a stop-gap measure,
it also provides for appointment of a
special commission to examine
postal problems and submit recom
mendations by Feb. 15, 1977.
Pending submission of the com
mission’s report, postal rates would
be frozen and service cutbacks
would be prohibited.
A substitute measure by Sen. Er
nest F. Rollings, (D-S.C.,) to reim
pose congressional control over the
Postal Service’s budget was rejected
by a vote of 58-26.
The bill now goes to conference
with the House.
Last October the House passed a
measure that, as Hollings proposed,
would require the Postal Service to
come to Congress each year to get an
appropriation.
The Senate bill is backed by the
Ford administration, except for one
amendment adopted Monday, but
Hollings predicted it would be unac
ceptable to the House.
eased by Senate bil
McGee said the Senate measure
offered the only hope of stabilizing
the Postal Service’s financial situa
tion until next year. Then, he said.
Congress will have to take a new look
at what should be done.
Before passage of the bill, the Se
nate defeated 82-6 an amendment
by Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., to
permit the delivery of first-class mail
by private companies.
It also rejected, 79-9, another
Helms amendment to permit citi
zens to sue the goverment for dam
ages for delays or misdelivery of
mail.
The only amendment adopted
over the administration’s objection,
offered Monday by Sen. Jennings
Randolph, D-W. Va., would make it
more difficult for the Postal Service
to close or consolidate post offices.
Under a 1970 reorganization act,
the Postal Service was established
outside the regular Congressional
budget process and was intended to
operate under a board of governors,
much like a private corporation.
After the defeat of Hollings’ sub
stitute, Sen. Bob Dole, the Republi
can vice presidential nominee, of
fered two amendments opposed by
the Ford administration.
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