the fact that we would not process a nominee that is important and vital to establishing what we need at OMB seems to me like you are shooting at your own feet.

S. 1486, as it stands now, is fatally flawed and we oppose it as written.

We have to make it viable. We have to make the numbers work.

All the more reason. If you are that integral of a part of the revenue of the Postal Service, would not cogent members of the Board be very slow to cause something that would lose them significant volume?

There is going to be more than an inflation cost because we cannot even meet the commitments that we have now.

So there is no subsidy now that is achieved for that that is transferred to other mailers because we are doing this.

By statute, you cannot sell that product below your cost.

This bill is all about, to give them the flexibility so that they can get the most revenue based on this wonderful asset that we have called the U.S. Post Office.

Just a followup on Senator Heitkamp's discussion.

It is not just the Postal Service that is wrestling with health care costs, right?

When Part B was started, it was to be a 50-50 payment differential between the participant and the government. We are at 25 percent.