Tom Coburn: “This is a simple vote. The Postal Service lost $15.8 billion last year. Political parties contributed to that loss by…”

“This is a simple vote. The Postal Service lost $15.8 billion last year. Political parties contributed to that loss by our getting a discount on all of our mail. All this will do is put us at the same rate as everybody else commercially in terms of the mailing. It is probably about $50- to $60 million if we pass this amendment that we will increase the revenue to the Postal Service. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Washington.”