Cantor Plans to ‘Clarify’ Postal Service-Highway Fund Plan for Republicans Next Week

The House majority leader also spells out the GOP’s June agenda. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says “a lot of misinformation” is circulating about a GOP proposal to cut Saturday postal delivery as a way to keep the Highway Trust Fund from going broke this summer, and he plans to clarify the plan for rank-and-file…

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House Republicans say it comes down to this: Saturday mail delivery or money for highways

Postal service on Saturday or paying for pothole patching? That’s the latest choice posed by House Republican leaders looking for ways to pump a bit of cash into the soon-to-be broken federal Highway Trust Fund. It comes down to fewer mail trucks rolling on Saturdays or less federal support for highway work seven days a…

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NAPUS: Congressional Raid on USPS — You Can’t Make This Up!

The latest postal absurdity on Capitol Hill is being perpetuated by high-ranking members of the House Republican Leadership. Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) propose to bail-out the Highway Trust Fund with an almost $11 billion raid on the U.S. Postal Service. There is currently a…

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APWU Condemns GOP Plan to Loot USPS to Save Highway Fund

Web News Article #: 108-14 June 2, 2014 – APWU President Mark Dimondstein issued a statement June 2 condemning a proposal by House Republican leaders to raid the Postal Service treasury to shore up the Highway Trust Fund. The statement appears below: “The proposal by House Republican leaders to use Postal Service funds to help…

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Rolando: House GOP plan to aid transportation fund by degrading postal services would damage economy, not achieve goals

May 31, 2014—NALC President Fredric Rolando said the proposal by House Republican leaders to temporarily fund highway construction by degrading postal services would damage the economy while failing to achieve desired transportation goals. “This is the latest attempt by GOP leaders at an end run, trying to cut postal services to provide money for another…

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Postal Service Funds Would Go to Highways Under House GOP Proposal

The shift would benefit both motorists and the USPS, Republican leaders argue. House Republicans are constructing a proposal to keep thousands of road and transit projects from grinding to a halt this summer by transferring funds into the nation’s nearly depleted Highway Trust Fund from the already money-losing U.S. Postal Service. But in a memo…

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The ED Show: GOP’s latest attempt to destroy the postal service (video)

Ed Schultz and Sen. Bernie Sanders discuss the Republicans latest attack on the U.S. Postal Service. (starts at 1:30) via GOP’s latest attempt to destroy the postal service | MSNBC.

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