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Outlook without the passage of comprehensive legislation. >> issa says the post office talks a good game, but it's 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 senate that would move to five-day delivery at 2017, keep all processing facilities open for at lea...

Massive loophole. if the chicken is raw, then it has to be labeled in the supermarket as to the country of origin. but once it's processed, it's cooked or breaded, it loses its country of origin labeling identity. and so that's 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 canadian poultry and sending it back. and, actually, between 2006 and 2007, china did have the o...

a suicide bomber. new developments in the probe into a deadly terror attack. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm candy crowley. and you're 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 the president. dan, the president pretty much could take up citizenship in ohio at this point. >> r...

>> 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 service we know and rely on. >> reporter: the coauthor of the house proposal, congressman dennis ross ...

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 had proposed. in my view, it did not go far enough. i brought together two dozen members of the senate...