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

Say that again. How many?

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?

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?

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

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I come out of this hearing encouraged rather than discouraged.

I do not want us to be sitting here 8 months from now, 9 months from now, 10 months from now trying to figure out what we are going to do.

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

But I would agree that diversification is essential if the Postal Service is going to survive into the future.

I propose in my legislation that the Postal Service be freed to better capitalize on the value of this network by experimenting with products and experimenting with services not directly related to the mail.

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

Next year? End of the current fiscal year?

I mentioned earlier the need for us as a country to move away from a culture of spendthrift in the Federal Government to a culture of thrift.

we have to lead by example.

I am not an advocate of eliminating Saturday delivery.

The Postal Service has done an admirable job in cutting costs and streamlining operations and reducing its workforce through attrition.

I would urge you to do that.

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

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