On the recordApril 24, 2012
I say to my colleagues that this is another good amendment offered by the Senator from Oklahoma. What the Postmaster General has in mind for our communities across America, where there are 33,000 post offices, is to give a number of them an option--a menu, if you will--to see whether it makes sense in those communities to shorten somewhat the length of time the post office is open in a day--maybe to 6 or 4 hours a day--whether to use a colocator in a supermarket maybe or in a convenience store or to in some cases, say, to State and local government operations in those communities: Why don't we put them under the same roof? Why doesn't that make sense? Frankly, all those ideas may make sense. The idea is not to tell a community which of those options they have to choose but to say: This is the menu. And this is one of the great options that should be on the menu. I commend the Senator for offering the amendment. I urge a ``yes'' vote on the amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no further debate on the amendment, the question is on agreeing to the amendment, as modified. The amendment (No. 2058), as modified, was agreed to.
