USPS Plans 27,000 Job Cuts as Plants Shut

[brentspeak]

66. You were there when the voice vote was held?

"No Democrat voted against it. None."

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-6407

Dec 8, 2006: This bill passed in the House of Representatives by voice vote. A record of each representative’s position was not kept.

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"You are saying if the GOP controls Congress then Democrats should just vote for anything proposed because they can't stop it."

It would be kind of strange for Democrats who lobbied -- and succeeded -- to have the union-busting language removed from the original legislation to then vote 'no' on the revised bill, wouldn't it?
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"Democrats controlled the House, Senate and Executive from 2009-2011. They could have repealed it."

They did try to repeal it, but couldn't because of GOP leadership and Tea Party Republicans (you did research all this before you posted, right?:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4959610&mesg_id=4960877

H.R. 22 (actually introduced by Republican John McHugh and Democrat Danny Davis) was passed by the House in 2009 over objections by the Tea Party-like Republicans, but has been blocked in the Senate by the GOP ever since through threat of filibuster (along with over 300 other bills).

Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) just a few months ago introduced even stronger legislation designed to allow USPS to use tap its overpayments. No way is it going to get anywhere in the new Tea Party-controlled House.

Last year, Harry Reid tried to get something going in the Senate to limit the amount of money USPS would be required to prefund each year. The GOP killed it.

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"The passage of the postal reform act was intended by Congress to preserve and protect the Postal Service for the American people, he said in testimony on behalf of the union." -- comments by the Legislative Director of the Postal Union in 2008 defending the Act

The APWU legislative director was a member of Congress, and was speaking on behalf of Congress in defense of the bill? Who knew?

In any case, you (once again -- gee, what a surprise!) conveniently left out this portion of his testimony:

“Whether the act will have its intended effect remains in doubt."

So he wasn't even "defending" the bill, after all, was he? His appearance before the Postal Reform Committee was to send a warning to those who were seeking to dismantle and privatize the USPS not to misuse the provisions of the new law.