Legislative Agenda: 2015, The Year of Reform?

Issue: Postal Rate Hikes, USPS Restructuring

Where it Stands: The House passed a reform bill back in 2013, but the Senate had no such luck behind the efforts of Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), whose S. 1486—the Postal Reform Act of 2013—could not get off the ground. In fact, the printing industry found some provisions so toxic that Lyons had to go to bat AGAINST the bill. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) championed the mailing industry's postal cause, but her amendment to keep the bill afloat and keep the process moving was defeated.