I just am very concerned about, having worked on job sites for about 20 years, your ability to be out there on the ground.

We need to stay in the loop. If you need more people, this is an important part of this.

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.

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.

the Postal Service is one of the most respected Government institutions in this country

we are going to have to decide on a course of action and we are going to have to get to it

their local clerk is a very familiar face around town

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.

The U.S. Postal Service is currently the most dependable, expansive mail delivery system in the world.

If that is the future here, if that is the future next year, do you think you deserve a bonus for that performance?