The House Rules Committee late last night voted against giving the U.S. Postal Service $500 million to pay for mail sanitation equipment.
The 8-2 vote killed an amendment to an $20 billion Defense Department appropriations bill that would have been the first installment of funds on the $3 billion that Postmaster General John Potter requested to help pay for equipment to rid the mails of biological agents such as anthrax.
The panel rejected the proposed amendment, sponsored by Rep. David Obey (D-WI), on technical grounds: Obey’s failure to first submit the proposal to the Appropriations Committee for approval, according to congressional documents.
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