Tom Carper

My bill would fix this problem by allowing EPA to require a targeted increase in monitoring for unregulated pollutants that could be hazardous.

For these reasons, I have asked the President to include water in his 6-year plan for infrastructure investment.

The public also has a right to know what's in their water.

Say that again. How many?

So in a case where they submit their claim to Mr. Feinberg's folks for like, say, $200, they got $100, but they are not satisfied. So they come to you for the second $100? Is that right?

Let me just ask you this. Stop right there. I want to go back to my second question. Is your office able to handle what I understand to be an increasing claims load demand? Are you able to handle it?

Sometimes I think you almost need the wisdom of Solomon to be able to do this fair and square.

I want to boil this down into four questions that I have focused on as I have looked at this issue, looked at the treaty, looked at its ramifications. I want to start out by mentioning what I think the four maybe critical questions are…

Doing away with Saturday delivery would save little money while risking the loss of much more revenue over time.

We want to particularly thank this Subcommittee for all it has done on behalf of the Postal Service.

I would like to thank Senator Carper and Senator Collins for your years of diligent work on postal issues.

One of the things we are trying to endeavor to do in the Federal Government is to collect several hundreds of billions of dollars of taxes that are owed but are not being collected.

I would urge you to do that.

To the extent that we can better identify services that logically could be provided at post offices in order to add to the bottom line at the Postal Service, that would be our preference.

We have to lead by example.

The bill that I have introduced would give the Postal Service more freedom to close post offices, including post offices that are operating at a deficit.

You could not pick a better State to emulate. It is actually a State that works.

In adversity lies opportunity.

I believe that if these projections do bear out, the Postal Service will be out of cash and out of borrowing authority.

Excuse me. You said by the end of the year.

We must be careful of using Band-aid fixes as we search for lifelong changes that will enhance our postal assets.

Let us not fix what is not broken.

I want to thank Senator Carper for taking the lead by introducing S. 3831.

I am reminded--there are no silver bullets when it comes to helping meet the fiscal challenges of the Postal Service.

The real challenge is to grow revenues, especially in a down economy, which I think is actually starting to get better.