Tom Carper

I like the way you worked that in there.

Indecision is deadly, I think, in an environment like this.

I believe, and have learned in my brief tenure here, that we cannot continue to do the things that we have always been doing, to the detriment of the American taxpayer.

It gives more interactiveness as opposed to even a letter or a form in the mail.

We are going to focus in this Subcommittee and our Committee, at least from my perspective, on how do we get better results for less money or better results for the same amount of money.

We have never had that discussion politically.

He never used a note.

I have jurisdiction in another Subcommittee that deals with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and for a number of years, consecutive years, they have been at the top of the charts in terms of a place where people like to work.

This hearing will examine lessons learned from the 2010 census, while identifying issues that show promise for producing an even more accurate and hopefully more cost-effective census in 2020.

I must admit the news of your decision to leave this post as Director of the Census Bureau is bittersweet.

But there is hope in a hopeless world, and there is, I think, reason to be hopeful for the Postal Service, too.

The legislation that we passed with a bipartisan majority in the Senate does not solve all the problems.

And vote-by-mail is, I think, a great idea for States.

But, rather than say we are going to close post offices, what we have done is say if there are 13,000 post offices with economic challenges, why do we not give the communities a menu of options?

I have encouraged friends at the National Association of Letter Carriers and the current leadership and the previous leadership to do what I think they tried to do a number of years ago, and that is to negotiate with management to see if…

I think we have come to a pretty good place. And a lot of people have worked on this.

The only people who do not make mistakes are the people who do not do anything.

My hope is that the House will pass a bill, I do not care, any bill, and just call it a postal bill and pass it on suspension, voice vote, and we will go to conference and hammer something out that is hopefully a better bill than the…

The Postal Service has to do something to increase revenues and cut costs.

I applaud the Committee's thinking. Fifty thousand is a high bar given that nowadays there are many CEOs of very impressive high-tech companies who would be disqualified.

I, as I said earlier, co-authored that legislation with Senator Collins and a number of our colleagues.

We need for the House to pass a bill.

Its continued vitality is an important part of our efforts to get the economy moving again.

The situation is dire, but it is not hopeless.

We need to look at those incidents, near misses, as the FAA looks at accidents for aircraft.