Tom Carper: “I concur with many of the remarks the Senator from Maine has made. She has listed a host of people who played critical…”

“I concur with many of the remarks the Senator from Maine has made. She has listed a host of people who played critical roles in the adoption of the legislation, hammering out a difficult compromise over the last 4 years. I salute her for her leadership and thank her for her leadership. I especially say thank you to Ann Fisher, who has served for Senator Collins and really for us, for the great work she has done in the course of this effort. I have been blessed with my own staff and a young man named John Kilvington from New Castle, DE, who came here with me 6 years ago and became an expert of his own with respect to postal reform, and has worked long and hard, even into this night, to bridge our differences and to get us over one last hurdle. There is a reason why we only do postal reform once every 36 years, and the reason is that it is tough to do.”