Mike Rounds

What we can and should do right now is explore suspending the federal gas tax through the end of the year to give Americans immediate relief.

We need to act now to bring down the price of diesel.

The prices at the pump are being driven by a global shortage of refining capacity.

We do not have a line-item veto available to the president, [and] this is almost the same thing.

We have to stay focused on the fact that we know that gas prices are too high, and diesel is way too high.

Until then, we’ll keep the pressure on and continue to fight for a return to service standards that not only meet but exceed expectations.

We’ll be watching the USPS’s team closely to see if and how these recommendations are implemented, and whether they actually make meaningful improvements in delivery time.

I’m grateful to Inspector General Tammy Hull and her team for their thorough review process in South Dakota and their thoughtful recommendations for improvements.

We’ve heard from thousands of South Dakotans who have real concerns about their mail service.

It’s encouraging and unsurprising that the Inspector General’s report studying the mail service in South Dakota shows evidence to back up what we’ve been hearing and seeing for years: the United States Postal Service is not adequately…

Plan on getting it done a little ahead of time.

I will keep the hold in place until such time as I see results.

The OIG agrees with South Dakotans that mail service is as bad as we have been saying it is for the last two years.

We’re definitely making progress.

This is a good first step in improving our mail service, and I hope it will begin to reduce delivery times in our state.

They’re hurt. They feel like they’ve been let down.

In closing, I offer my strong endorsement for Mr. Clayton to serve as the next Director of National Intelligence.

But is this enough money to get the job done, or is this going to just get us far enough until we've got to come back in here?

It is my intent to only release this blanket hold when my concerns are fully resolved by USPS leadership and service returns to levels at least equal to the days of the Pony Express.

Incompetent bureaucrats should not get bonuses when the mail does not run on time.

I am forwarding this to you via email because if I mailed it, you may not receive this letter in a timely fashion.

Anyone who has spent time around cattle understands one simple truth: no grass means no cattle.

You might very well save money on the insurance side of it.

I think there's a number of areas within the Department of Education that we've been working on, through legislation, trying to divvy back out again to the departments that they were in before the Department was ever created.