Mark Meadows

I can tell you that you will find a bipartisan support that you've never seen before as we start to try to really address this in a real way.

I'm committed to the ranking member to work diligently to make sure that we come up with postal reform that does exactly that.

I need you to be transparent.

I think all of us want the Postal Service and system not only to be efficient but be what we've always--what we've grown up with it to be, is, you know, neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet.

You either have it, or you don't.

If you don't have the data to make that commitment, Mr. Corbett, then you don't have the data to make the commitment that 180,000 is correct either

I guess I want to encourage you to reevaluate that and perhaps slow that down and do it in buckets of 40,000 or buckets of 50,000 based on needs because in Mr. Connolly's district, you could do it with electric vehicles extremely well.

To say we've got cash just means that you haven't been paying an obligation you're required to.

I thank the chairman for his kind words and for his leadership because we would not be here today without the great work of the chairman; the ranking member, Mr. Eliot Engel; and my good friend from Florida, Ted Deutch, who has dropped…

I think all of us here, our objective is good government.

So what's the fire? Well, the national approval rate for disability applications remains just as high as it was when the LIRR fraud scheme was bilking the RRB out of billions of dollars.

Yet, according to the IG, it appears that only 5, get that, 5 of 70 recommendations have been fully implemented.

The RRB's disability benefits program is a crucial safety net for rail workers who are injured due to the demanding nature of the job.

We're here really today to perform one of the committee's core function, and that is protecting the taxpayer dollars from waste and fraud.

I would ask each one of you, what do you think?

By the time they were caught, the fraud ring resulted in the RRB awarding $1 billion worth of bogus disability claims.

I am confused on what our objectives are, specifically with Syria.

I think that the balance of those three elements I see a lack of credibility within the region right now in terms of if we say something do we really mean it.

What I find very concerning is all of you are willing to get together to discuss your testimony before coming here to be honest and, yet, the American people expect just honesty and, yet, what we have is a coordinated effort to be a stone…

Five executive orders, over 10 codified laws that required Congress to act to remove the sanctions in some way, form or fashion from Iran.

I would be remiss in not saying, even though my opening statement was negative about DHS, that the Secretary of DHS just came by and had a meeting with Mr. Connolly and I and has laid out a number of steps on where he is wanting to address…

I have great hope that today Mr. Connolly and I will be able to embark and other members of this subcommittee will be able to embark on an effort that is not a hearing for TV or anything else, that it is a real hearing about a message that…

80 percent of 40 people or 34, depending on which you want to look at, is a significant number, and that's very troubling to me.

Let me tell you why you're here today is because the employees that work for you have given you an F consistently.

Let me put it a different way for all three of you. Here is what I am asking you to provide to this committee, is a score, a quantitative number, in terms of where we are today and where you would like to be a year from now.