S.Amdt. 49

SA 49. Mr. SANDERS (for himself, Mr. Tester, Mr. Markey, Ms. Baldwin,
Ms. Warren, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Franken, Mr. Udall, Ms. Stabenow, and Mr.
Murphy) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA
2 proposed by Ms. Murkowski (for herself, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Barrasso, Mr.
Risch, Mr. Lee, Mr. Flake, Mr. Daines, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Cassidy, Mr.
Gardner, Mr. Portman, Mr. Alexander, and Mrs. Capito) to the bill S. 1,
to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. PROTECTING THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE.

(a) Moratorium on Closing or Consolidating Postal
Facilities.--During the 2-year period beginning on the date
of enactment of this Act, the United States Postal Service
may not close or consolidate any processing and distribution
center, processing and distribution facility, network
distribution center, or other facility that is operated by
the United States Postal Service, the primary function of
which is to sort and process mail.
(b) Moratorium on Changes to Service Standards.--During the
2-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act,
the United States Postal Service shall apply the service
standards for first-class mail and periodicals under part 121
of title 39, Code of Federal Regulations, that were in effect
on July 1, 2012.
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