Political Quotes

“Mr. President, on behalf of Senator Feinstein, Senator Cantwell, other colleagues, and myself, I call up amendment No. 2020 and ask unanimous consent that it be modified with the changes at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the amendment, as modified. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Oregon [Mr. Wyden], for himself and Mrs. Feinstein, proposes an amendment numbered 2020. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To require the Postal Service to consider the effect of closing or consolidating a postal facility on the ability of the affected community to vote by mail and to provide for a moratorium on the closing or consolidation of post offices and postal facilities to protect the ability to vote by mail) On page 28, strike lines 20 through 24 and insert the following: ``(i) conduct an area mail processing study relating to that postal facility that includes-- ``(I) a plan to reduce the capacity of the postal facility, but not close the postal facility; and ``(II) consideration of the effect of the closure or consolidation of the postal facility on the ability of individuals served by the postal facility to vote by mail and the ability of the Postal Service to timely deliver ballots by mail in accordance with the deadline to return ballots established under applicable State law; On page 29, line 13, strike ``and'' and all that follows through ``publish'' on line 14 and i…”