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	<title>PostalReporter News Blog &#187; Senator Susan Collins</title>
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		<title>Senator Snowe Opposes USPS Consolidation Plan for Hampden Facility</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2012/01/12/senator-snowe-opposes-usps-consolidation-plan-for-hampden-facility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Provides comments challenging agency’s proposal at public meeting in Brewer Press Release from the Office of Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R-ME) WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) this evening expressed her strenuous opposition to the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) controversial proposal to consolidate the Eastern Maine Processing and Distribution Facility’s mail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senators Lieberman, Collins, Carper, and Brown React to USPS Losses</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/11/16/senators-lieberman-collins-carper-and-brown-react-to-usps-losses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON – Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn), Ranking Member Susan Collins (R-Maine), Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.), and Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.) reacted Tuesday to an announcement from the Postal Service that it lost $5.1 billion in Fiscal Year 2011. The loss would have been $10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Senator Collins Introduces 21st Century Postal Service Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Collins Introduces Plan to Stabilize U.S. Postal Service]]></description>
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		<title>Senators Introduce 21st Century Postal Service Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security, which oversees the U.S. Postal Service, joined Sens. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Scott Brown (R-Maine) to introduce the bipartisan 21st Century Postal Service Act of 2011. His statement, as prepared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flashback: Congress Says 2006 Postal Reform Bill Will Make USPS Viable for 21st Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are we in the 22nd Century yet? On December 20, 2006, the &#8220;Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006&#8243; was passed in both House and Senate (Darrell Issa was there at the time). This legislation was supposed to &#8220;modernize the United States Postal Service and make it  viable for the 21st century. The legislation, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Will Weigh Proposals To Save USPS After White House Submits Its Own</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/09/07/senate-committee-will-weigh-proposals-to-save-usps-after-white-house-submits-its-own/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TWO SENATE BILLS, USPS PROPOSALS CONFLICT WASHINGTON – Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Federal Financial Management Subcommittee Chairman Tom Carper, D-Del., Tuesday praised Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe for offering a bold plan that attempts to stave off the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) imminent bankruptcy. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senator Susan Collins: Rural Post Offices not the cause of USPS financial crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/07/28/senator-susan-collins-rural-post-offices-not-the-cause-of-usps-financial-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Suan Collins issued the following statement on possible post office closures: July 26, 2011 The United States Postal Service today announced a list of nearly 3,700 post offices it will consider for closure. Senator Susan Collins, who is the Ranking Republican on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and who in February introduced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senator Collins Urges PRC to Consider Congress Intent In Postal Rate Increase Case</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/07/26/senator-collins-urges-prc-to-consider-congress-intent-in-postal-rate-increase-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Press release from Susan Collins, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member , R-Maine: WASHINGTON, July 25 —U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today urged the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) to consider Congressional intent as it determines how closely proposed rate hikes must be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senator Collins Issues Statement On PRC&#8217;s Five-Day Delivery Advisory Opinion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, DC – The Postal Regulatory Commission today released an Advisory Opinion on the U.S. Postal Service five-day delivery plan. The Postal Service must obtain a Commission Advisory Opinion on any change in nationwide service it proposes. The Opinion found annual net savings to be an estimate is $1.7 billion versus the Postal Service’s savings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NALC: Collins&#8217; bill is a good start, but it needs work</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/02/18/nalc-collins-bill-is-a-good-start-but-it-needs-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/02/18/nalc-collins-bill-is-a-good-start-but-it-needs-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the 112th Congress gets underway, the NALC’s legislative goals remain firm. We continue to seek legislation that allows the U.S. Postal Service to use the pension surpluses in both the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) to fully fund the Service’s retiree health benefit account. We are asking [...]]]></description>
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