At the insistence of the Bush administration, Congress in 2006 passed legislation that required the Postal Service to prefund, over a 10-year period, 75 years of future retiree health benefits.
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Unfortunately, my colleagues in Congress have unfairly burdened the Postal Service with a costly, unfunded mandate to pre-pay health care for retirees. No other agency or business has to pay these costs in advance - and neither should the Postal Service.
We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires.
The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.
The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.
It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.
Whether you are a low-income elderly woman living at the end of a dirt road in Vermont or a wealthy CEO living on Park Avenue, you get your mail six days a week. And you pay for this service at a cost far less than anywhere else in the industrialized world.
The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.
Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.
We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen.
Now back in those days, to become a rural mail carrier you had to be approved by congress.
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