Steve Lynch

If you are going to ask the American people to absorb pain and closings and increased debt, there needs to be some type of reflection in the management team that acknowledges we are in some tough times.

I compared the practice of giving bonuses in the financial services industry to people who were losing money to the practice of giving bonuses to executives at the Post Office at a time when they are losing money.

I understand the idea of comparable salary. However, I don't agree with the premise that just because AIG or Merrill Lynch is giving people bonuses for driving the company into the ground that we should emulate that.

Will there be any attempt to offer any incentive to get people out the door?

I am inclined to be receptive of that.

I have seen some numbers that concern me about what is going to happen to my postal employees in 2017.

I don't want to face that.

I think there is a certain loss of market share when you become a 5-day delivery post office instead of a 7-day delivery post office.

There is unequivocally no doubt in my mind that some serious reevaluation of our Postal Service must take place.

I hope that this hearing will give us an opportunity to thoroughly explore the problems and difficulties being faced by what I considered to be one of our great national treasures, that is the Postal Service.

We learned in the February report from the top oversight panel that the banks that had received TARP money in exchange for their assets had actually overstated the value of those assets that they held and it sold in return for TARP money…

I have about 40 percent of my district that doesn't have money in the stock market.

If the locomotive engineers, security personnel, our dispatchers, our conductors, train workers and rail workers don't understand what our plan is in the event of an attack, then we really don't have a plan. Mr. Chairman, in light of the…

I now rise in support of the victims in this disaster and to commend the State, local and Federal officials and emergency personnel for their response to this crisis situation.

Just on the point of the risk analysis and the risk-based strategy here, I do want to note that in our rail conference, our summit on rail security, at one point I did ask the union representative of Amtrak and some of the train crews that…

Mr. Speaker, I am extremely disappointed that this conference report fails to address the real dangers facing multi-employer pension plans. ... Sadly, this good work was undone yesterday by Republican conferees who gutted multi-employer…

I must admit to great disappointment in reviewing the Republican plan for prescription drugs. I think that we need to start from the very beginning. In 1965, when Medicare was created, I think that back then there was a good-faith…

Mr. Speaker, the privilege of my new office allows me the great honor of representing many of the neighborhoods and towns that surround Logan Airport in Boston. It just so happens that today I have the sad duty of meeting with many of the…