I would sure encourage you to.

I just want to say to Mr. Chairman and to Pat Leahy and Jeff Sessions, the Chairman and full Committee and the Ranking Republican and to your staffs how much we appreciate the expedited consideration of this nomination.

I think I'd like to start off my hearing by singing a verse of Oh, Our Delaware.

I once had the misfortune of following Maya Angelou as a commencement speaker at the University of Delaware several years ago when I was Governor.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your foresight and leadership in holding this hearing.

It would be less than $1 billion a year, so in terms of contributions it could make, it would not close the gap as significantly as eliminating Saturday.

Those are some big if's.

Even the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) money... is actually being repaid.

the Postal Service Board of Governors proposed going from 6- to 5-day delivery, because we believe that delivery has to be able to pay for the amount--the frequency that we provide.

So you have roughly 600,000 employees today.

We have got to have some creative thinking as you downsize to meet the demands of First-Class Mail.

The business model is broken. The generation below me does not want you, does not use you, does not need you.

Our economy was shedding 600,000 jobs a month, and last month I think we added about 150,000 jobs.

We live in a country where about a third of us are overweight or obese.

I think they came up with 70 recommendations to the Congress and to the President that they developed in that period of time.

I think one of the things that is misunderstood is this whole notion of access.

OK, good. Let us talk about vehicles that you use.

When the wind is blowing we need the ability to store the electricity when we have more than we can use.

A year ago, our GDP was down by 6 percent. The last quarter we reported on, it was up by 6 percent.

The wind does not always blow. We are looking off the shore of Delaware to deploy a windmill farm in about 2 years.

To me the basic premise has been that the Postal Service is supposed to be self-financing.

Well, we all know that the media loves to report good news.

I think Mr. Williams makes a good case in his testimony that Congress and OPM have done the Postal Service and its customers a disservice over the years in miscalculating what the Postal Service owes the Federal Government to care for…

I know you all are looking at some different options with respect to vehicles in the future.

Hopefully our Good Earth will be around 10 years from now and so will the Postal Service.