The elimination of Saturday delivery will make the USPS less valuable to business and accelerate electronic substitution.

I urge you in the strongest and most forceful way not to eliminate the congressionally-mandated 6-day delivery language provision.

Well, we make laws.

In terms of career employees, I don't anticipate we'd have to lay anybody off.

So, that represents a little over 4 percent of your annual budget?

I agree with her completely.

Consumers are affected every day by the FTC's work.

But, you're saying if the $75 billion is found, you wouldn't have to cut the frequency of service?

Are you trying to recover the $75 billion?

Americans living in rural areas where the Postal Service's competitors do not deliver or where broadband connectivity is not available rely especially on 6-day USPS delivery.

I encourage you to follow the Administration's lead by including the mandated 6-day delivery language in the 2011 bill.

The FDA now says that recent research raises valid concerns about the possible health effects of this chemical.

I am pleased to convene this hearing before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government.

So, we ought to look at that.

As I see it, there are two or three big questions out there about the current economic status of the Postal Service: the $75 billion question, the $2 billion question, which you've raised, questions about healthcare benefits that could…

Are you having second thoughts?

Taking the downtown Chicago Post Office out of this conversation--the old one--do you have excess property and real estate that is in a valuable location that you could consider selling to try to come up with some of the revenue the Postal…

I'm glad that my friend and fellow member of the subcommittee Senator Susan Collins of Maine is here today.