Let us not think about this like motor vehicle safety and speed limits... because when they happen, they are almost unthinkably catastrophic...
I have been uncomfortable sitting here listening to a traditional way of evaluating cost-benefit analysis.
shortages of drugs around the country mean that hospitals are unable to meet the demand for workhorse medicines
the gray markets are playing Russian roulette with patients lives
I think there were areas of military compensation, for example, where we said, 'Listen, we are a Nation at war...'
So I will go on record as saying we need more revenue.
I realize they may be competing or contradictory goals.
In 4 days, we will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the attacks of 9/11 and mourn anew the nearly 3,000 lives that were lost that day.
There is no question that, although I think we knew it then, we can certainly look back and say now that we understand that on that day, we ...
the most recent contract agreement with the Postal Service's largest union, by and large, represents a missed opportunity to negotiate a con...
I am not sure if there is a way to structure through negotiations, not mandated by the Congress but through negotiations between the Postal ...
Given the challenging economy facing our country, we cannot afford to put those jobs and that kind of productivity in jeopardy.
More than 80 percent of the Postal Service's expenses are workforce-related.
The Postal Service tells us they need to go from 6-day to 5-day delivery in order to save what they think is about $3 billion a year.
I can see opposition, some in the Senate and certainly a significant amount in the House, on the theory that somehow that is a bailout.
By next summer, if nothing else is done to help the Postal Service, you effectively have to stop delivering the mail.
There is a clock ticking. You are going to default on $5.5 billion the Postal Service owes to the retiree health benefit fund.
We should be writing more passionate letters to those we love.
