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But wouldn't Senator Bennett's approach, that if you originated a product, then you have to keep it in there, that is not so much just protecting the consumer, but it may be also protecting this--putting some requirements of safety and…

Excuse me. Could I just, Senator Schumer, just ask the panel all to try to answer quickly...

I would love to see more specificity about how we can ensure community banks, smaller banks, are inside a single end-to-end regulator.

I would just like to make a request to the panel, because it is clear that the panel has got a lot of ideas here.

I do think there is--the notion of a separate division makes some sense, but in any large organization is not the bias going to be toward the larger institutions?

Should there be some concern that, with the best of intentions, some of the cost-cutting measures being contemplated or undertaken could prove to be counterproductive?

I just don't want to see us, by default, allow the economic forces to define what the Postal Service will look like in the future.

I believe that any short-term steps must be taken in the context of consideration of the long-term business model for the Postal Service.

I will never forget on a trip to Darfur meeting with a Major Ajumbo who was with the AU, he was also in the Balkans, and he said our rules of engagements here are very similar in terms of protection as they were in the Balkans.

I may be a freshman but the light has stayed on red.

There is much to be done to strengthen U.N. peacekeeping, and that has been, as you know, the theme we have been discussing and its various aspects most of the morning.

For 61 years, they have served our interest, and you have laid it out pretty well in your testimony all the various aspects of that.

Jane Holl Lute, who is now back in the administration, was the U.N. Assistant Secretary General for mission support, she was outraged as were others in the U.N.

We will not sit idly by until the blue helmet is restored.

We need to match supply with demand, and we have talked about that as well today.

Which would be a difficult assessment to make at a State level.

I think you teed up a very good point that--you know, and I come as a nonbiased party to this optional Federal charter or State charter debate.

If you choose to do a whole series of what would be viewed by someone as a risky product line, there would be additional cost to it.