The Nation - News from April 1, 1986
Congress is running out of postage money and members may use up their franking privilege in the middle of this election year, Sen. Charles McC. Mathias Jr. (R-Md.) warned. Mathias, chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, said that at the current rate of mailing, the Senate may run out of postage funds in 30 days and the House is not far behind. He said Congress underestimated the amount it needed for postage when it appropriated $100 million for fiscal 1986, and noted that more than $4 million was cut from that amount under Gramm-Rudman requirements.
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