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Outlook without the passage of comprehensive legislation. >> issa says the post office talks a good game, but its up to congress to legislate real change, including some processing plants now, no longer delivering to your door in five-day delivery. >> $5 billion in getting rid of six day delivery. $6 billion in going to the curb per year. these kinds of changes can save the post office and for the american people, provide a better product. >> tom carper has a plan with bipartisan support in the ...

Massive loophole. if the chicken is raw, then it has to be labeled in the supermarket as to the country of origin. but once its processed, its cooked or breaded, it loses its country of origin labeling identity. and so thats a major, major problem. the bottom line here is, china has always wanted to export its own poultry to the united states. and this is a first step. this was the first step that the bush administration approved in 2006, for china to at least start processing or cooking u.s. or...

a suicide bomber. new developments in the probe into a deadly terror attack. wolf blitzer is off today. im candy crowley. and youre in "the situation room." the battle for the white house now centered in the state of ohio. president obama paid yet another visit to what both campaigns see as a must-win state. and today the president came armed with a new report on tax policy that he used to hammer away at mitt romney. our cnn white house correspondent, dan lothian, is traveling with t...

>> reporter: careful deliberation and yes, sir, fighting. competing plans, one in the house and one in the senate would offer buyouts, layoffs, close post offices, processing plants, eliminate saturday delivery and slow mail services. house version is generally more aggressive reducing the size and cost of the service. the senate majority leader calls that plan reckless. >> unlike the unacceptable bill congressman issa is pursuing in the house, this bipartisan senate bill preserves the postal se...

Terrible thing. the post master general originally wanted to shut down half of the processing plants in america, about 250 of them. all told, he wanted to shrink the workforce by over 200,000 workers in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the great depression. wanted to end saturday mail delivery. wanted to slow down mail delivery standards. what happened is senators lieberman and corp. introduced the bill that certainly was a heck of a lot better than what the post master general ha...

Originally wanted to shut down half of the processing plants in america, about 250 of them. all told, he wanted to shrink the workforce by over 200,000 workers in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the great depression. wanted to end saturday mail delivery. wanted to slow down mail delivery standards. what happened is senators lieberman and corp. introduced the bill that certainly was a heck of a lot better than what the post master general had proposed. in my view, it did not go fa...

theblaze.com. happy friday lets get to our "starting point." protests happening right now in afghanistan, protesting the decision of some nato trops to burn korans. hundreds of people to surround the embassy. five people have been hurt. nick paton walsh is live for news kabul. whats the latest? >> well, what were hearing is that the west of the country, hurat, one of the main city theres. u.s. consulate in kabul, the u.s. consulate out there have a very angry crowd outside. hundreds of...

atone shtentio attention, including the attention of our president. >> and eruptions rage in afghanistan even after president obama apologizes for the burning of the koran. we are getting reports of a serious increase in the chaos there. >> in this country, a man accused of killing his wife while on a scuba trip and who pled guilty to it elsewhere finds he will not be spending time in prison in this country, the judge said i dont even want the jury to hear this. >> yesterday we told yo...

More than 32% of the federal waters in the gulf of mexico are now closed to fishermen because of this oil disaster. the leak costing many oyster workers their jobs, but as t.j. holmes tells us, its not because the oysters are contaminated. >> on a typical monday morning here before the spill, id open that door, and find 800 to 1,000 sacks of oysters. to be reduced to this in a matter of 60 days because of something we have no control over, its very sad, very sad. what can you say? >> reporter: t...

Businesses. >> on a typical monday morning here before the spill id open that door and find 800 to 1,000 sacks of oysters to be reduced to this in a matter of 60 days because of something we have no control over, its very sad. very sad. what can you say? >> reporter: this was one of the largest post-harvest processing plants in the gulf. the co-owner says last year the company did $8 million in sales but the oil spill forced the company to cease operations which cost 48 employees their jobs. >> ...