If you close every rural post office in North Dakota, you will not have an opportunity for new revenue.

Do you believe that the highly rural areas of America deserve the same level of service as suburban and urban areas of this country?

And I am just trying to kind of get a handle around these numbers.

I do not think that anyone in rural America anymore believes that is true or trusts it.

This is always the danger of average, right?

But you certainly can appreciate how dealing with this in a kind of broader context and designing new systems would create problems not only administratively but also huge uncertainties for the retirees and for the near retirees that are…

I think there is good public policy to encourage the availability.

We will make the choice to do nothing.

I worry greatly how all of this will affect retirements into the future, how all of this will affect our ability to supplement our older income.

I think what we would say to the enemies of this country: Do not take from this democratic process and discussion a lack of resolve. We will stand together shoulder to shoulder. This is the process the Constitution gave us and the…

There are some who may question whether this is capitulation or whether in fact this is a lack of showing of American unity. How would the Senator respond to those concerns?

To add another point to what Senator Manchin has spoken about, which is that the results have not been satisfactory--I think the other point we need to make is the results of all that interaction over this decade-plus of activity in this…