Daniel Akaka actually said...

"Service and deliveries may need to be cut back in order to balance the books of the Postal Service."

"Could a public works program like that be useful in the economic situation we find the country in today?"

"I believe our greatest challenge as we move to the future has to do with those unseen wounds, so to speak, the wounds of stress, the wounds of injury, traumatic to the brain."

"If confirmed, each of you will face, without question, enormous challenges in DOD."