One thing I would caution that you should do is not go to 5-day delivery.

In my opinion, it gets strikingly close, if not over the line, of just trying to run around the basic compensation package.

I recognize the series of indicators along the way of the remarkable progress that has been made within the Postal Service.

We need revenues to go up, we need expenses to go down to get to that magical point.

I personally support H.R. 22, now that I have been able to dive in and look at it.

I hope this is something that we continue to explore, that we look at the differences between urban areas and rural areas.

I think there is a distinct difference between a rural post office, which could be the center of town, ... and maybe an urban center or downtown.

I guess I would ask that at some point, that the report be given back to us specific to that program.

I think that is another discussion that perhaps we have to have.

What is the actual number? Maybe I just heard something wrong here, so my apologies.

My congratulations and hats off to the entire postal community for the great savings and efficiency that were accomplished under your watch.

I have some deep concerns. You may have a football team that is fighting and doing everything they can and you want to pat some people on the back, but if you are losing the game and you come up in the red, I just don't see any room to at…

This is the first of our oversight hearings on the Postal Service and our first hearing overall.

The U.S. Postal Service touches everyone.

Certainly when it comes to natural gas, I think we have to be particularly concerned if there is climate change legislation, that the electricity providers turn to natural gas.

If everybody was at home, doing their job and focusing entirely on the economy is that something that somebody would have read.

Has the Department of the Interior taken any steps since the scandal came to light dealing with NLCS to ensure that Department of the Interior employees cease any kind of improper collusion with political advocacy groups or lobbying groups?

we are going to come back and try and fix it by going after them in a punitive way.