Tom Carper

Without major change, the Postal Service would run up cumulative deficits of more than $230 billion by 2020.

This is a very challenging time for the Postal Service and this country.

The Postal Service is projecting further record losses, perhaps more than $8 billion.

The legislation that I have introduced, which would allow the Postal Service to take advantage of its resources and its delivery network to experiment on a limited basis with non-postal products.

But when you are losing $8 billion a year, how much risk can you truly afford?

Postal Service finances are always the gorilla in the room regardless of the issue at hand.

I certainly recognize that, without knowing the details of the internal operations, trying to more closely hit a 90-day schedule, give or take, is much more important to the policy makers.

We just need to remember that we are all in this together.

If you look at the legislation Senator Collins and I co-authored in 2006, one of the things we did was we spelled out in the legislation the kind of background that we are looking for when the President nominates people to serve as a…

I think their new Deputy Postmaster General, Ron Stroman, has made a new effort to try to engage the Hill.

There is always room for improvement on that front, but I would vehemently disagree with individuals who feel there is not innovative thought going on at the Postal Service.

There is an old saying that haste makes waste, but it works the other way, as well.

We are spending a little more than $1 trillion a year more than we have.

Fiscal year 2012 is shaping up to be little short of a disaster for the Postal Service.

This cut would lead to the loss of 3,500 more jobs in Rhode Island.

If things are worth having, they are worth paying for.

I think we should build on the bipartisanship we have.

We also need to be smart about how we do it.

Some people here in Washington don't seem to be able to distinguish between those two kinds of spending.

If we don't do this, it is counterproductive. People are going to lose their jobs.

If we don't act, it is terribly counterproductive, 620,000 jobs lost in 2012 alone.

I just want to say that I hope with your help and the help of my colleagues here in the Senate and over at the House, we hope to change that.

I think we both agree they are both important.

I have introduced legislation again in this Congress with the Department of Interior... to try to create a national park in our State.

If confirmed as the Assistant Secretary, what would be your top priorities during your tenure besides the national park for Delaware?