"We need to stay in the loop. If you need more people, this is an important part of this."
"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 ..."
"There is unequivocally no doubt in my mind that some serious reevaluation of our Postal Service must take place."
"I am inclined to be receptive of that."
"I don't want to face that."
"I have seen some numbers that concern me about what is going to happen to my postal employees in 2017."
"Will there be any attempt to offer any incentive to get people out the door?"
"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 shou..."
"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 ..."
"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 time..."
"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."
"the Postal Service is one of the most respected Government institutions in this country"