"the decision to further reduce postal services would cause an even bigger drop in mail volume that could lead to a death spiral for the USPS."
"It took, as you know, Senator Collins and me some 5 years or so to get postal reform legislation enacted."
"Our purpose was straightforward. We wanted to help ensure the continuation of affordable universal service."
"Congress has been known in the past to put up road blocks that prevent you from operating in the most efficient manner possible."
"It is absolutely unacceptable for you to come to Congress and say that you need relief from financial obligations, and then we hear from the GAO and from the Commission, from our own experience, that ..."
"I am also very concerned about the lack of financial transparency, which was a key goal of the 2006 legislation that we authored."
"I do not know how you can ask for relief from your financial obligations and at the same time propose cutbacks in service."
"What we basically need is a general understanding that the Postal Service is challenged and is going to have to make these changes."
"President Bush indicated that as troop levels in Iraq decreased, many of those forces would be redeployed to Afghanistan."
"I expect we will all hear President Obama himself lay out his priorities for NATO at the 60th Anniversary Summit in April."
"I believe that the administration must consider the defense industrial base, such as the 95,000 (direct and indirect) jobs associated with the F-22 program."