I think we need to be humane.

I do not hear any great appetite for laying folks off. I do not hear him say, 'We are asking for that as an authority.' I think that would be their last choice.

We support proposals by Senator Carper and Senator Collins to give the Postal Service access to its excess retirement funds.

Senator Carper's bill wisely authorizes and encourages the Postal Service to expand services.

They have more processing centers, probably twice the number of processing centers that they need around the country.

we may be just a few weeks away from the first-ever default of the Postal Service.

Would you take a look at the work that Segal and the Hay Group has done?

the discussion we have here today will jump-start the process of developing a bipartisan, bicameral consensus around the reforms necessary to restructure the Postal Service's finances.

But why doesn't the Administration have a plan for us today?

The Postal Service is an enterprise. It is a business enterprise.

There is not a bailout that is needed here, but in large part, what we need is to let the Postal Service act more like a business.