Latest GOP scheme to kill Saturday mail delivery killed in Congress

WASHINGTON (PAI) - Dismissal and some derision, from everyone from postal and construction union leaders to congressional Democrats to even the Radical Right Heritage Foundation, greeted House GOP leaders' latest scheme to pay for fixing the nation's highways, by killing Saturday postal service and diverting the "saved" dollars to roads.

The idea, floated May 31 by Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., would send $10 billion to the Highway Trust Fund over a decade. The three, catering to their Tea Party caucus, oppose other ways to shore up the trust fund, which may run out of money as soon as the end of July.

Their solution is to scrap Saturday pickups and delivery, which they claim would also help lessen the Postal Service's red ink. In his budget for the year starting Oct. 1, President Obama also wants to scrap Saturday service. He says that would save $2 billion yearly. But Obama would pay for highways by closing business tax loopholes. Unions, led by the Laborers, want to raise the gas tax for the first time since 1991 ...

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