On the recordApril 18, 2012
I thank my colleague from Connecticut. I appreciate him addressing this issue and I look forward to working with him. I understand efforts were made to identify issues the Postal Service must consider before closing a post office. But the key is not simply to have them consider an issue but to have a standard by which it can be evaluated whether that standard has been met. That is the critical distinction, which then allows the review commission, which the Senators have appropriately included in the bill, to have a standard; simply: Did the Postal Service consider this? They will say, yes, they did consider it. But did it have a substantial impact in damaging the local economy? Now there is a standard for the review commission. I look forward to working with the Senator and thank him so much. And I thank Senator Collins and Senator Carper, who have been working to help address this issue as well.
