"It is definitely a force multiplier, and more and more small businesses are coming wanting protection, understanding the risk and the liability."
"I do not want to just focus on the Chinese tariffs. I want a better understanding of what direction this administration is heading in trade policy because I do not think these messages are appropriate..."
"the future of American agriculture is in research. It is in trade promotion, yet those programs get zeroed out."
"This is the challenge that we have. Poverty rates, one out of every three rural counties have poverty rates in the percentage of 20 percent."
"This puts a burden on you, and I want to make sure that the Fed understands that this is not--at least this sponsor of 2155 did not in any way want to limit your ability to identify those institutions..."
"I think we have to be really careful when we are pointing fingers about not having a full contingent, because this is not something new."
"Our choices are pretty limited. Your choices are going to be pretty limited if we do not do postal reform."
"We are going to hold you to that, Mr. Williams, because frequently what we find out is that when push comes to shove and we end up financial, we start hearing about reducing service."
"We, as a major Board of Directors here on this Committee, but certainly the Board of Directors for the post office has not been functioning for a long period of time."
"Where frequently the problems that we talk about here may not have reached America in the same way, America knows that the post office is not delivering the way they used to deliver."
"I think it is the best we can do right now to really illustrate the enormous challenges that are ahead of us."