Elijah Cummings actually said...

"If we can't do this, we might as well go home."

"Labor is the foundation on which our Postal Service is built, and we must honor the employees who have served this institution for decades."

"I want jobs. I want jobs. I want to keep as many people working as possible."

"If Congress says we want you to do something a certain way, and the postmaster came back and said, no, I am doing it my way, the postmaster would catch hell."