that's exactly who vickie kennedy is. we all greatly admire vickie and have complete confidence in her. vickie kennedy will shine on the board of governors and our country will be the better for her service. i thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator markey. all i can say is after listening to that introduction to our nominees, whenever i'm nominated by some president some day, i want ed markey to introduce me, too. i think even i could get confirmed with an introduction like that. senator markey, thank you so much. it's great to see you. and over to your left shoulder, my old friend crise. tha chris. thanks for joining us. i always feel like i should ask you to come and sit here, senator dodd. i'm told it's against the rules. that's where my shattheart is. senator markey if you need to leave, we should be done here by 9:00 tonight, but if you need to slip out before then, feel free to do that. >>> before we proceed with your statements, we have this thing about committee rules. committee rules require that all witne

that's exactly who vickie kennedy is. we all greatly admire vickie and have complete confidence in her. vickie kennedy will shine on the board of governors and our country will be the better for her service. i thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator markey. all i can say is after listening to that introduction to our nominees, whenever i'm nominated by some president some day, i want ed markey to introduce me, too. i think even i could get confirmed with an introduction like that. senator markey, thank you so much. it's great to see you. and over to your left shoulder, my old friend crise. tha chris. thanks for joining us. i always feel like i should ask you to come and sit here, senator dodd. i'm told it's against the rules. that's where my shattheart is. senator markey if you need to leave, we should be done here by 9:00 tonight, but if you need to slip out before then, feel free to do that. >>> before we proceed with your statements, we have this thing about committee rules. committee rules require that all witne

that's exactly who vicki kennedy is. we all greatly admire vicki and hatch complete confidence in her. vicki kennedy will shine on the board of governors and our country will be the better for her service. i thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator markey. all i can say, vicki, is after listening to that introduction of our nominees, whenever i'm nominated by some president someday i want ed markey to introduce me too. i figure even i could get confirmed with an introduction like that. senator markey, thank you so much. it was great to see you and see over your left shoulder my old friend chris dodd, chris, thank you very much for joining us. means a lot. i almost feel like i should ask you to come sit with us, senator dodd. i'm told it's against the rules. you know that's where my heart is. i think before we proceed with your -- senator markey, i know you have other things to do. if you need to leave we should be done by 9:00 tonight. if you need to slip out before then, feel free to do that. before we proceed with

those challenges that is exactly hugh fet candy -- is rehashed complete confidence in her and vicki kennedy will shine as a board of governors and our country will be better for her service. thank you, mr. chairman. >> all i can say after listening to that introduction if i ever nominated i want senator murky to introduce me. [laughter] anybody can get confirmed with the introduction like that. thank you very much for joining us chris. i feel like you should come sit with us senator dodd. [laughter] should be done here by 9:00 tonight feel free to do that if you need to leave but before we proceed committee rules require that all witnesses if you the of the other testimony under oath please stand to raise your right handç to swear the testimony will give before this committee will be the truth while vultures have nothing but the truth so help you god? >> i do. >> [inaudible conversations] if. >> is an did dr. miller? >> your welcome to proceed with your statement but please feel free i am glad you are here. >> mr. jefferson said no higher honor to pay as of may and bantus save mr. and inde

role to play in reviewing the reasonableness of those, but to do it ahead of time is just, as vicky kennedy was saying, we need to be nimble enough, the postal service does, to make the adjustments. fuel costs can go up. we saw surcharges put on fed ex and ups when there was a spike in gasoline prices. the postal service doesn't have that flexibility. i think they need it. i think it's fine to review it after the fact and i think the new legislation has that exactly right. >> thank you, sir. mr. brennan? >> i won't repeat what my colleagues have said, but i do agree with the provision in s 1486 relative to rates. one of the things that came up in the session with your staff last thursday was there was a comment in the private sector that you can -- you know, you don't have any caps on pricing. well, that's really not true, i mean, because if you price yourself out of the market and you don't sell anything, then you're out of business. i think the postal service needs the same level of flexibility that you have in the private sector. the kind of flexibility that will allow us to be market dr