The Congress used to operate with a lot less openness and transparency than we do today.

It is out there. I thank my colleague. I want to take a minute or two to have us step back and think about how we got into this mess with the housing bubble and all that literally led us almost to the brink of disaster in this country…

Madam President, while the Senator from Georgia is still on the Senate floor, I want to say it is great to have him back. He has been back for a couple of weeks, but he had some pretty serious health challenges and it is good to see him…

I think the rating agencies worked very hard and were under a lot of pressure to analyze the pools that they were rating.

They were under a lot of pressures in order to keep market share and in order to keep their business alive, so, therefore, they had to rate competitively against the other rating agencies.

Mr. President, I rise today to introduce two pieces of legislation that I believe will help the Federal Government cut its energy bill, save taxpayers' money and benefit the environment. Today is Earth Day, when people are thinking about…

So you have roughly 600,000 employees today.

Maybe we ought to allow them to raise rates to meet the needs of their revenue stream.

Those are some big if's.

To me the basic premise has been that the Postal Service is supposed to be self-financing.

I think they came up with 70 recommendations to the Congress and to the President that they developed in that period of time.

I know you all are looking at some different options with respect to vehicles in the future.

I presume it would not be close to $3 billion, but would it be $1 or $2 billion? Any idea?

When the wind is blowing we need the ability to store the electricity when we have more than we can use.

Well, we all know that the media loves to report good news.

It's maybe the most conservative approach I have ever seen, pre-funding the health obligations of an employer in this country, private sector or public sector.

It would be less than $1 billion a year, so in terms of contributions it could make, it would not close the gap as significantly as eliminating Saturday.

I think Mr. Williams makes a good case in his testimony that Congress and OPM have done the Postal Service and its customers a disservice over the years in miscalculating what the Postal Service owes the Federal Government to care for…