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Show Sen. Moss Applauds Action on Junk Mail Senator Frank E. Moss of Utah Wednesday applauded the action of the Senate Appropriations Committee for including a provision pro-vision against the Congressional "junk mail" in the Legislative Appropriation Bill. On June 13, Sen. Moss testified testi-fied before the Committee, urging urg-ing the elimination of Congressional Congres-sional franking of any mail addressed ad-dressed to "occupant" or postal patron. The Committee report, presented pre-sented by Senator John Pastore (D-R.I.), contained the following follow-ing language. "No part of any amount appropriated ap-propriated in this Act shall be available to finance the mailing and delivering of mail matter sent through the mails with a simplified form of address under the franking privilege by any member or member elect of the Congress to postal patrons, including in-cluding those patrons on rural or star routes. "Under the terms of this provision, pro-vision, members of Congress will be required to put names and addresses on all mail sent under our Congressional frank. "This is a victory for moderation modera-tion in Congressional expenditures. expendi-tures. I hope the Senate will support the action of the committee. com-mittee. If the privilege of bulk mailing under Congressional frank is permitted to continue. the volume of this type of mail would expand tremendously in the years ahead. "The postage rate raise bill has passed the House, and is pending in the Senate Post Office Of-fice Committee. It proposes to raise rates for all our citizens who use the mails. It will raise the cost to commercial users of third class mail, those to whom this medium is necessary to advertise ad-vertise their goods and services, to 3 Vz cents per piece. "If we are going to raise rates there is no justification for members of Congress to increase Post Office costs by continuing to send 'occupant' and 'postal patron' mail postage free." Sen. Moss is the author of a bill that prohibits use of the Congressional frank on mail unless un-less such mail is sent to individuals indi-viduals by name and address. He said it will not be necessary to press for passage of his bill if Senate and House approve the Legislative Appropriations Bill, which includes the mailing privilege privi-lege provision. |
