{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mccaskill.senate.gov/media-center/latest-headlines/mccaskill-blunt-call-for-delay-in-usps-consolidation", "McCaskill, Blunt Call for Delay in USPS Consolidation", "2014-12-01", "2014", "2014-12", "Democrat", "House", "MO", "Claire McCaskill", "M001170", "www.mccaskill.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "McCaskill, Blunt Call for Delay in USPS Consolidation \r\n                \r\n            \r\n            \r\n                Monday, December 1, 2014\r\n            \r\n            \n\t\n\r\n            \r\n            \r\n            \r\n                \r\n                \r\n                \r\n            WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Missouri Senators are calling for a delay in the planned consolidation of up to 82 U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail processing facilities, including one in Springfield, Mo.\u00a0\r\nU.S. Senators Claire McCaskill and Roy Blunt, along with other colleagues, sent a letter to the USPS Inspector General after it was announced the Postal Service failed to fulfill its obligations to adequately study the impact of the consolidations and failed to inform the public of those impacts.\u00a0\r\n\"We strongly urge the USPS to delay implementation of any mail processing consolidations until feasibility studies are completed and there has been adequate time for public comment and consideration of those comments,\" the Senators wrote in the letter. \"Completed feasibility studies should include service standard impacts worksheets based on the revised service standards expected to be published on January 5, 2015.\u201d \u201cThere is no reason that the USPS cannot delay its consolidations to provide time for the public to see and comment on the service standard worksheets,\u201d the letter continues. \u201cIt is only fair to allow the process to unfold in this way, and the USPS gains little by deciding to continue the consolidation process on its current, arbitrary timeline.\" To read a copy of the letter, click the link above. Along with Blunt and McCaskill, the letter was signed by the following Senators:\r\n \r\nTim Johnson of South Dakota\r\nEd Markey and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts\r\nSherrod Brown of Ohio\r\nCarl Levin and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan\r\nRichard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy of Connecticut\r\nAmy Klobuchar and Al Franken of Minnesota\r\nBob Casey of Pennsylvania\r\nChuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York\r\nHeidi Heitkamp of North Dakota\r\nMary Landrieu of Louisiana\r\nMark Pryor of Arkansas\r\nDianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer of California\r\nJoe Manchin of West Virginia\r\nJeff Merkley and Ron Wyden of Oregon\r\nMaria Cantwell of Washington\r\nRobert Menendez of New Jersey\r\nJon Tester and John Walsh of Montana\r\nTammy Baldwin of Wisconsin\r\nPatrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders of Vermont\r\n \r\n            \r\n             \r\n            \r\n            \n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t  \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.mccaskill.senate.gov/media-center/latest-headlines/mccaskill-blunt-call-for-delay-in-usps-consolidation"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9044581092894077, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}