{"id":31683,"date":"2021-02-04T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T12:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps02.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=31683?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2021-02-04T05:02:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T12:02:04","slug":"bipartisan-bill-introduced-to-support-postal-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2021\/02\/04\/bipartisan-bill-introduced-to-support-postal-service\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan Bill Introduced  To Support Postal Service"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Senators Steve Daines and Brian Schatz (Hawaii) introduced  a bipartisan bill Feb. 1, The \u201cUSPS Fairness Act\u201d is designed to repeal a mandate requiring the U.S. Postal Service  to pre-fund its employees\u2019  retirement health benefits.  The USPS is the only federal agency that is subject to this requirement.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cThe United States Postal Service is essential to Montanans  across our state,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31699,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31683\/revisions\/31699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31683"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=31683"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=31683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}