"This should not be a partisan issue, would you agree?"
"I certainly appreciate this hearing, because this Postal Service is an issue we work on every Congress, and don't seem to move very far."
"If it was such a best practice, then obviously we'd make everybody do it."
"So, I'm asking do you have any sense of how much integrating Postal Service employees into Medicare would increase the costs of the Medicare system itself, or would somehow burden the Medicare system ..."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman."
"Congress as an institution has failed the American people by failing to do something about what I regard as the most important issue for our country and for the world today."
"I had hope that our hearing would not be whether we had a problem--we have one--but how we would go about solving it."
"I just want to correct the record. I have been here for every minute of every hearing, and she probably has the best attendance of any member."
"The true measure of leadership is whether we leave the world better for our children and our grandchildren and those yet unborn than we found it."
"The White House is rejecting requests from congressional Democrats to obtained documents tied to President Trump's communications with Vladimir Putin."
"the Constitution requires us to count every person."
"we will look to our very able Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, headed up by the Honorable Jamie Raskin, to followup with additional hearings."