dr. coburn and members of the committee. im cliff guffey and msa have been hard by the cooperation between the parties here today. mr. innocent american citizen to see how this is plain out. the postal service has an income of $65 billion a year. the chief financial officer reported recently postal service has an annual cash flow of $140 billion. that's one way to measure the postal service to our economy. in addition to the business, support to ordinary citizens. many towns, cities have protested against the closing of mail. the post office is an important part of the town's identity and communication center. many people do not have access to the internet. according to recent study by the pew center, one in five do not use the internet. 40% of american bills do not have broadband access. senior citizens, those with less than high school education and those in low income households are the least likely to have internet access. for the 36 years before the passage of the p8 ea, the postal service is always changing from a manu

dr. coburn and me as hard as that is to believe. [laughter] if you're over 85% -- i want to drink what you're drinking over here. >> a disconnect that the combination of not that high and a whole lot lower for us. >> i don't know. i don't know. at the end of the day, i want the postal service employee sued over critical for the work they do. they do vital service, important service and we appreciate the willingness to work with leadership to resize this enterprise. this is a problem that can be fixed. this is a challenge that can be met and our goal, michael and one shared by dr. coburn is a whole lot sooner than later. for an overtime right now. this is not going to be like notre dame the other night for week five other times were not going into five overtimes. are going to get this job done. that having been said, i'll yield to dr. coburn. >> i want to thank you for your testimony and hard work on this issue. i was one of those who failed to vote for the postal reform bill because i felt it? some essential things required to solve

dr. coburn, and others look forward to speak with you tomorrow when you roll out the g.a.o. high-risk list. i describe that as our to-do list to stop wasting money. we are grateful to that as well. i'm going to go back to something i mentioned erblier -- earlier. i want to go back to the issue of health care costs. you both alluded to this. in terms of right sizing the enterprise, looking at the distribution system we have now, i think a lot of work's been done to rationalize it. if you look at what we passed in the senate and our legislation, moving to a modern one-day delivery in metropolitan areas, and three-day delivery, the idea of giving the postal service the option of going from -- there's probably a compromise somewhere that i think we can seize on to. if you look at the distribution, the postal distributions, you look at the way, smarter way we are using our post office, especially in the rural areas, not closing the post office, continuing to provide service in a cost-effective way, if you look at the rather remarkable reduction in work force, the post office -- p

dr. coburn's hard work. for instance, instead of the latest incarnation of the buffett tax, we could according to "back in black" save $71 billion over ten years by substituting a -- instituting a five-year freeze for federal workers or reduce travel budgets of federal agencies. that would save just over $43 billion over ten years. another revenue increase in the majority leader's bill that could be replaced with a spending cut is the elimination of what some democrats have described as -- quote -- "a tax break for shipping jobs overseas." indeed, we've dean this proposal proper up several times. some may recall the chief of staff of the joint committee on taxation wrote a letter to senator stabenow and representative pascrell. the authors of the bill to close this so-called loophole, that stated -- quote -- "under present law there are no specific tax credits or disallowances of deductions solely for locating jobs in the united states or overseas." i previously challenged my colleagues to point out to me if

dr. coburn and i do hearings is to find out how do we get to yes. how we resolve this issue.this is eminently solvable. this is one we can fix. i think the dialogue we have had in the first two panels today is in good spirit here with the members of the committee and with the house here. that is all very encouraging. one of several banks the my family uses, when they first started offering service, putting my debit card -- put in a debit card. a message with pop-up. it would say, a neighborhood bank. it was friendly. friendly, but you look it used to. -- you get used to it. i like to say that is our model for delaware. most of us did not like going through security checks at the airport. the folks at tsa, i am sensing a greater friendliness and .elpfulness brok >> you need to fly more. [laughter] the culture change has started to take place. >> i hope so. delaware, they generally know me. for the most part, they like me. they're friendly and so forth. too often i see the provision service in the post office but i would not describe as friendly and welcoming -- but i would not

>> kelly, i think that senator coburn lives up to his representlation and his nickname as dr.o in the senate. if there's any senator taking issue with the president going city to city and town to town and informing americans and local governments about the programs that are available to them through their taxpayer dollars, it would be him. and i don't think there's anything really controversial about members of the federal government, members of the administration to go and have these information sessions with people, but this conversation is pretty premature, it hasn't been announced yet that this is something the white house is dealing with. and i think that-- >> with all due respect to what you're saying the president has the right to do this, certainly does, and it might be a good move to get out and talk to the american people, which he customarily does, but it costs money, angela. it costs money at a time that we're talking about sequestration and losing money. >> you're exactly right, kelly and listen, 83% of the american people believe that washington d.c. has a spendi

dr. coburn and members of the committee. im cliff guffey and msa have been hard by the cooperation between the parties here today. mr. innocent american citizen to see how this is plain out. the postal service has an income of $65 billion a year. the chief financial officer reported recently postal service has an annual cash flow of $140 billion. that's one way to measure the postal service to our economy. in addition to the business, support to ordinary citizens. many towns, cities have protested against the closing of mail. the post office is an important part of the town's identity and communication center. many people do not have access to the internet. according to recent study by the pew center, one in five do not use the internet. 40% of american bills do not have broadband access. senior citizens, those with less than high school education and those in low income households are the least likely to have internet access. for the 36 years before the passage of the p8 ea, the postal service is always changing from a manu