Thomas R. Carper: “Restoring America's Everglades is producing benefits far beyond their ecological value, including driving Florida's…”

I am the last Vietnam Veteran serving in the U.S. Senate, and kind of relates to my great affection and interest in the postal issues.

Public engagement can build trust, it can increase public buy-in, can help resolve issues, can help prevent litigation, and ultimately it can save time and money.

If I had known--as you know, the breadth of the issues that we cover in this Committee are enormous. It is impossible for any of us to fully master each of them.

I think the greatest way that the Commission can have an impact on that is probably through our rate-making authority.