"I don't mind the Corps, the District Department of the Environment, in fact, I think there is some good to be said for the technical support and I appreciate that, and EPA all being in bed together."
"But all we want to see is what we can see now. I am not asking to see what you haven't completed yet."
"I would like to hear from the Postal Service this morning something other than nips and tucks."
"I am willing to look at something that I would not have thought about when I first came to Congress, a 5-day delivery."
"What I am trying to do is, as the title of the hearing implies, whether or not savings can make a difference, in terms of saving the institution."
"We don't want the Post Office to disintegrate before our very eyes, and this may happen."
"No institution has had a deeper long-term decline. No institution that I can think of has had a deeper long-term decline than the Postal Service."
"You cannot get an answer. I am not saying a straight answer; I am saying an answer from the Federal Government."
"Federal employees and residents in this very dense region have lived with a continuous tension, most of it from a total lack of transparency on a subject of huge urgency involving hazardous materials."
"What leaked out was deadly chlorine gas from one of three cars that was carrying liquid chlorine."
"The hazardous substances area presents immense challenges to a market economy."