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On the recordApril 24, 2012
this amendment would also take $8.9 billion that is supposed to go to pay for retiree health benefits of postal workers and instead redirect those funds to maintain 6-days-a- week delivery of the mail. I hope we always have 6-days-a-week delivery. I think that is an asset. I think we should strive to preserve it. That is why our bill prohibits going to 5-day delivery for 2 years, to wring all the waste out of the system. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Mexico.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine
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Apr 24, 2012

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