On the recordApril 24, 2012
If I may, if we are going to vote now--and Senator Collins and I spoke to this at great length yesterday. The CBO score my friend from Alabama cites is a real misreading of the effect of this legislation. It is a kind of form of accounting over the reality of budgeting. The bottom line is that the U.S. Postal Service itself says that if this bill--the substitute to S. 1789--is adopted--and it would be phased in over 3 years--the Postal Service will save $19 billion annually. To me, that is what this is all about--no deficit, a saving. I ask my colleagues to support the motion to waive the point of the order. I would yield to my ranking member. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maine.
