Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer made his displeasure clear after Sen. Rick Scott delayed the passage of the invoice to strengthen the USPS.
Sen. Scott, who dedicated Medicare fraud, claimed that he was delaying the invoice to save lots of Medicare:
Congress can’t squander this chance to make actual reform to the @USPS. I’m preventing to verify the Senate delivers a invoice that actually works for People, protects Medicare recipients, our postal staff & supplies a optimistic return on taxpayer {dollars}. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/S0NHH5qm2d
— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) February 14, 2022
Senate Majority Chief Schumer wasn’t shopping for it.
Chuck Schumer Known as Out Scott For Delaying The Invoice
Schumer stated on the Senate flooring:
What we heard is why individuals actually are annoyed, angered at the USA Senate: a broad bipartisan invoice, months and months within the making with massive quantities of dialogue, has the assist of the Democratic Chair of the Committee, the Republican [Ranking Member] of the Committee, was voted on within the Home with a majority of Democrats and a majority of Republicans—and would lastly repair the Publish Workplace.
I hope my colleague from Florida has heard from his constituents about snail mail, about the whole lot coming late: pharmaceuticals coming late, Social Safety checks coming late, birthday playing cards arriving weeks after the birthday occurred.
And eventually each events coming collectively in each the Home and Senate to move this laws and the senator from Florida’s utilizing a technical element to carry us up.
It’s the identical invoice that was on the ground Thursday, the place we had settlement to maneuver to vote on it tonight, however the Home despatched us a invoice with a technical change. And 5 instances prior to now this has occurred and every time no Senator had the temerity to stand up and block it on a technical situation, and it simply handed on by U.C. and we moved forward and went ahead.
Our constituents need us to repair the Publish Workplace. A majority – overwhelmingly – of Democrats and Republicans need us to repair the Publish Workplace. All of the postal staff are for this invoice. My colleague from Florida says he’s defending postal staff. As for the folks that characterize them: I dare say it’s the pinnacle of the Letter Carriers and the pinnacle of the Postal Employees and the pinnacle of the Mail Handlers who characterize the postal staff greater than the Senator from Florida, and they’re overwhelmingly for the invoice, as is the Postmaster – an appointee of President Trump’s. So everybody tries to come back collectively and get one thing completed, and the arcane guidelines of the Senate permit one particular person to face up on a invoice that’s been on the market—and mentioned repeatedly—and on the final minute and lift objections.
It’s regrettable and it’s unhappy.
There’s excellent news, although: though it will delay the invoice, we’ll move it. We must simply undergo this elaborate course of with the old style and infrequently discredited guidelines of the Senate that the senator from Florida’s using.
We’ll have to make use of them, however we’ll move this invoice as a result of America wants it. Rural individuals want it. Senior residents want it. Veterans want it—80% of the veterans’ prescriptions are despatched via the mail. No person must be standing in the way in which of this invoice. It’s a tragic day that only one member has.
The Invoice To Strengthen The Postal Service Will Go
The invoice to strengthen the USPS was about to move by way of unanimous consent till Rick Scott objected. The invoice might have handed at this time, however Scott wouldn’t permit it to be fast-tracked, so the Senate might want to undergo the entire course of for legislative passage, which can take extra time, however the invoice will nonetheless move.
Rick Scott is main the Senate Republican effort within the midterm election, so he desires to decelerate the Senate and guarantee that Democrats get much less completed earlier than the election.
Sen. Scott put politics forward of what Congress, the President, and the American individuals need.
Right here is hoping that voters punish his Republican Senate candidates accordingly in November.
Mr. Easley is the managing editor. He’s additionally a White Home Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Diploma in Political Science. His graduate work targeted on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.
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