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...that the Senate will replace his farm bill, which was defeated in the House. Medicare went down to Senate defeat several weeks ago. A vicious fight is expected in both House and Senate when it comes time to put up money for foreign aid. The request for increases in postal rates is stalled in the Senate. The foreign trade bill, approved by the House, has been held up by the Senate Finance Committee; some 200 witnesses are still waiting to testify against it though eventually it should pass...
...only through bargaining. The United States, the South Vietnamese guerillas, and the North Vietnamese regime would have to make concessions. A cease-fire might entail large U.S. troop reductions, if not complete withdrawal. Steps toward unification would have to be slow and conservative, starting perhaps in areas such as postal service and student exchange. In the end, if negotiations do nothing else, they will at least give the U.S. a more concrete idea of who the guerillas represent and of what their goals really...
Ancient Problem. The proposed postal increases are embodied in H.R. 7927, a bill that has passed the U.S. House of Representatives, but still needs Senate and presidential approval to become...
...distributes census and in come-tax forms as well as franked (i.e., free) congressional mail (86 million pieces last year). The cost of these services is partially borne by all mail users, and even Postmaster Day has agreed that this is unfair. H.R. 7927 proposes an increase in the postal department's "public service" allowance from $62.7 million to $248 mil lion a year.* There are other ways to solve the postal problem than by upping the charge to periodicals. One alternative is for Congress to finance an accelerated modernization program for an operation that is historically inefficient. Some...
...Citizens Advisory Council appointed to study the postal department's problems suggested that the figure be raised to $392-4 million...