Elijah Cummings actually said...

The most painful thing about it... is that they go through all of that, denied opportunity over and over again, and then they die.

They have done it over. And over and over and over again they see and feel the wind from a door being shut in their faces over and over and ...

But yet and still, people are not getting those opportunities.

We hold this hearing today at a time when our national economy is struggling and the U.S. Postal Service is not immune to that trend.