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Tom Carper: “My hope is that the House will pass a bill, I do not care, any bill, and just call it a postal bill and pass it on…”

On the recordJuly 11, 2012
My hope is that the House will pass a bill, I do not care, any bill, and just call it a postal bill and pass it on suspension, voice vote, and we will go to conference and hammer something out that is hopefully a better bill than the Senate bill and a lot better than no bill.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper expresses hope for bipartisan postal legislation to be passed quickly.

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