"I can tell you that the insurance industry doesn't operate that way and that was just an unfortunate and gross exception"
"The Postal Service has been funded by stamps. Stamps. That's how we fund it."
"To try to say that we're all of a sudden going to just switch this over."
"Privatization, which I firmly oppose, would require the taxpayer in the United States to take the $38 billion in underfunded liability from the postal workers' pensions."
"We should treat our postal workers with respect and decency, based on the job that they do."
"the tactic of this Administration and the strategy of this Administration has been to circumvent the oversight responsibility of Congress"
"Therefore, it is critical that Congress not just think about how much money is provided to Afghanistan if you decide to do so, but how it is provided and what kind of oversight is available to protect..."
"We've lost 2,400 people here. And the United States taxpayer has funded all of that. Yet, when we ask for data to report on how our troops are equipped and how this effort is going, we're being denied..."
"I want to associate myself with the remarks of Mrs. Trahan and Mr. Moulton, my colleagues from Massachusetts."
"We require licensed technicians and engineers on site and we have adequate supervisory staffing at all times--no waivers, no exceptions."
"We can't get into that process. We get bounced out all the time."
"I am afraid that what has happened in Merrimack Valley is going to happen in one of my neighborhoods and we are going to have a massive loss of life."