Tom Carper

I wish that my other colleagues were as considerate.

My colleagues often hear me say everything I do I know I can do better.

None of them dealt with the clean financial audits statements or audited statements.

Oversight hearings are important because they really help to focus on what the issues are.

Keep holding us accountable.

Sometimes it is get somebody confirmed for a position of leadership.

What can the Legislative Branch do here?

These issues are even more personal and important to me.

That is what I call being on message, and it is a good message to have.

The books at the DOD I am told are so bad that auditors cannot even attempt to perform a complete audit.

Currently, the Department of Defense (DOD) is incapable of doing this.

I think we need to be humane.

Eighty percent of the costs of the Postal Service is people.

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.

Three things that the Postal Service needs to be able to do in order to be a viable ongoing enterprise in the future: First, they just have more people than they need on active duty, if you will; second, they have more post offices than…

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.

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

Are we smart enough at the Postal Service to come up with new products or innovations?

What we need here is not more process; what we need here is not to deal just with the symptoms of the problem.

One of the great inhibitors to economic growth in our country today is the lack of certainty and predictability.

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

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.

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

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