David Pryor: “I am urging my colleagues right now to look very, very carefully at the Coverdell amendment. We do not know what the…”

“I am urging my colleagues right now to look very, very carefully at the Coverdell amendment. We do not know what the Coverdell amendment does. We do not know what the ramifications of the Coverdell amendment might be. We do not know what real threat to the revenue base the Coverdell amendment might have to the U.S. Postal Service. We have no way of knowing what the Coverdell amendment, if adopted, if enacted, would have on, for example, the vitality of our hundreds and hundreds of rural post offices in America. So, Mr. President, I am asking my colleagues to pause a moment, to take a second look at the Coverdell amendment, and to ultimately, when we get the opportunity later, vote to table this particular proposal. As a matter of fact, Mr. President, only 2 days ago, I prepared a letter to the Honorable Charles Bowsher, the Comptroller General, asking him--the GAO--to take a very thorough look into the postal fairness, which is basically what the Senator from Georgia is attempting to weave into what we now know as the Competitiveness Act, S. 4, the pending major legislation on the floor.”