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In reply to the discussion: USPS Plans 27,000 Job Cuts as Plants Shut [View all]brentspeak
(18,290 posts)68. On the contrary
The existence of the Internet is apparently your vehicle for attempting to confuse people (is it your paycheck, as well?):
"A voice vote requires unanimous consent. If someone wants their votes to be recorded a recorded vote must be taken. If someone wanted to oppose this bill they could have asked for a recorded vote. No one did. In the Senate it was a unanimous vote. Try your BS with someone who doesn't know the rules."
So because a voice vote was held, that means no Democrats voted against it, as you claimed earlier?
http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/95-563.pdf
Whenever Representatives vote on the floor, there first is a voice vote, in which the Members in favor of the bill, amendment, or motion vote Aye in unison, followed by those voting No. Before the Speaker (or the chair of the Committee of the Whole) announces the result, any Representative can demand a division vote, in which the Members in favor stand up to be counted, again followed by those opposed. But before the result of either a voice vote or a division vote is announced, a Member may try to require another vote in which everyones position is recorded publicly.
Nothing there about a voice vote meaning "nobody voted against it", "everybody voted in favor of it", nor that declining to request a recorded vote means a completely uniform voice vote.
"Here is what the Postal Union said right after the bill was passed..."
It's been noted for some time that the various postal unions failed to see the danger of the pre-funding requirement back in 2006. Not like their opposition to it would have prevented it from being rammed through the Republican Congress, anyway. They've been lobbying to have it revoked ever since: http://my.firedoglake.com/mmonk/2011/08/19/the-pre-funding-mandate-bringing-down-the-american-postal-workers-union/
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I thought they had fixed that problem by stopping pension contributions.
Snake Alchemist
Feb 2012
#23
And yet, our "great" Congress was naming the remaining ones just a couple weeks ago
NICO9000
Feb 2012
#4
Agree with you 100%, the postal service was doing great btw, until Issa and his cronies
peacebird
Feb 2012
#14
They were go again with the namecalling. Prefunding retirement benefits is also a problem
DUIC
Feb 2012
#18
I thought they had fixed that problem by stopping pension contributions.
Snake Alchemist
Feb 2012
#24
Why does the Post Office need to keep running unprofitable operations as a charity
DUIC
Feb 2012
#36
It's also burdened with a lot of snide and arrogant low-level workers. Everyone has run into them.
Fortran
Feb 2012
#44
Nothing a sane congress can't fix! A government run postal service is written into our Constitution,
Dont call me Shirley
Feb 2012
#22
correct... If there is someone to be blamed, it is the person that invented the barcode....
IamK
Feb 2012
#34
All because the Bush Administration Screw them by having to cover SS for 75 years.
Justice wanted
Feb 2012
#9
Who is in the line up to steal the PO's 75 years of pension benefits?
Dont call me Shirley
Feb 2012
#29
I'm thankful our wonderful postman has a chance to retire instead of being laid off
lunatica
Feb 2012
#59