Most of it is from foreign sources. A lot of it is from places that are undemocratic, frankly, unreliable, and we need to reduce that.

Absent prompt and dramatic action on the part of Congress, our next Postal hearing may well be about how we pick up the pieces from a shutdown in operations.

We must be--we have also lowered the cost of processing inside plants.

We need to develop a bipartisan, bicameral approach to address these challenges.

This is not the first hearing that we have held with regard to the Postal Service's financial challenge, but it is an important one.

I have encouraged the previous Postmaster General, the Board of Governors, the labor unions that represent many of the Postal employees, is to just be as creative as possible and think outside the box.

Thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks for your preparation.

Both Senator Carper's bill and Senator Collins's bill would fix this problem, and we strongly support those efforts.

I have always said, and we have talked about this before, some day, somebody will look back at the Postal Service and say we had a Post Office in every community in America and we went to every door 6 days a week.

Senator Carper's bill proposes allowing the Postal Service to provide non-Postal services utilizing Postal physical and digital infrastructure in a manner consistent with public interest.

how important is it that the Postal financial relief bill that we consider here in Congress go beyond simply pensions and retiree health issues.

We hope within a couple of years to have deployed maybe the first offshore windmill farm off of Rehoboth Beach.

It is critical that we address the FERS issue, the overpayment, and that we can get that money back.

It is critical that we address the FERS issue, the overpayment, and that we can get that money back.

Implementation of EPA's cap-and-trade agenda will have ruinous consequences for our economy, with some estimates as high as $400 Billion in lost GDP.

1 percent of the cost of a small set of projects is a reasonable price to ensure that fewer Americans die from diesel soot.

If we could get enough of those out there and operating, we could have a lot of clean air.

An idea that came from my friend Sen. Voinovich, DERA is one of the most cost-effective clean air Federal programs.

Clean diesel technology is making a bigger contribution toward reducing oil consumption and greenhouse gases, more than any other affordable drive technology today.

we are going to zero that program out. It seems kind of counterintuitive.

Cleaning up dirty diesel emissions provides us with an opportunity to walk across the aisle.

All right, Mr. Schneider, thank you very much for your testimony, for your enthusiasm, and for your encouragement.

My colleagues and I were sent to Washington to govern and to find common-sense solutions to the challenges facing our Nation.

These rules, taken together with the agency's greenhouse gas requirements, could cost families and businesses over $300 Billion by 2015.

you crafted the Clean Construction Act of 2011, which will reduce these emissions by helping to clean up on- and off-road construction equipment.