I have absolutely no sense that there is anyone on the commission that wants to delay this unnecessarily.

Safety must always be our top priority.

Ted Kennedy and I subscribe to the 80/20 rule. We agree on about 80 percent of the stuff.

This is a day that the economy could have melted down, and it looks we are going to be able to avoid that.

We don't always smile either up here.

For the people of Vermont, and I think most people in this Country, unlikely is really not quite good enough.

Some of us believe that in fact we have got to do everything we can to make sure that the impossible does not happen.

I applaud him for doing that.

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

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

I would say to our witnesses, there are more 'Marks' in the U.S. Senate than any other name.

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.

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

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…

We cannot afford to let that happen in this country.

they expect us to work together.

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.

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

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

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

My bumper sticker these days is 'Better results for less money.'

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

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

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.

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