I can tell you that the insurance industry doesn't operate that way and that was just an unfortunate and gross exception

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.

The Postal Service has been funded by stamps. Stamps. That's how we fund it.

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 the U.S. taxpayer dollars in those…

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 information.

I certainly support their recommendations that we require licensed technicians and engineers on site and we have adequate supervisory staffing at all times--no waivers, no exceptions.

We require licensed technicians and engineers on site and we have adequate supervisory staffing at all times--no waivers, no exceptions.

Congressman Lynch, our goal is to complete the Merrimack Valley investigation this September, before the one-year anniversary.

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.