We need the relationships... one of the pillars that is missing in this administration's efforts to connect the rest of the world and the United States together is trade agreements.

Now we know that, unfortunately, for many Americans living in poverty, especially those without stable housing, mail and the delivery of mail is very difficult.

We need to find a way that gets us in a position in which every other bill is not handicapped by the score of CBO creating the necessary PAYGO rules to be complied with.

We know that there are barriers to voting disproportionately for folks that are unhoused, that might be immigrants, or folks that may not have direct access to mail.

For people who cannot afford access to a P.O. box, the general delivery service is the only way that they can access essential mail, including food benefits, health insurance, housing vouchers, and more.

I am looking forward to a productive conversation on these issues and a variety of others highlighted in your testimony.

And Mr. DeJoy, thank you for being here, and I especially want to thank all the women and men of the Postal Service, the incredible folks.

can you please get us an ADA ramp for the post office.

today it is the pig pen, and tomorrow it is the whole barnyard.

The intent of the supplemental was to support urgent time-limited needs, kind of one time or one period of time circumstances, not to create an artificial increasing of the VA's budget.

So the problems, or the lack of accounting of the money from COVID, which you are now trying to address by bringing it to the Central Office, that is not anything that would suggest the same problem will occur for the money in the fund for…

AGOA is the cornerstone of the United States' economic engagement with sub-Saharan Africa but its value is about more than just trade.

I understand that the VA plans to track expenditures from the Toxic Exposure Fund to ensure they are justified.

I am happy when I hear compliments that good things are happening. It is not that I am looking for an answer that says they are failing.

We need the relationships that, perhaps, you have described, using diplomacy, and diplomats, and State Department officials, and relationships.

We share a concern about the threat posed by CCP-influenced companies operating around the world.

In my view, one of the pillars that is missing in this administration's efforts to connect the rest of the world and the United States together is trade agreements.

China continues to close the gap with the United States.