Steve Lynch

I believe we need policies that encourage more freight to move by rail because what we hear is happening is that Wall Street is pushing the railroads to only carry the most profitable freight leaving companies scrambling to move their…

I just want to disabuse anyone of that notion that they are making more than double that.

the need for a currency or an electronic token that is equivalent in functionality to cash.

President Biden has, through executive order, instituted a number of severe and crippling sanctions against Vladimir Putin and a number of individuals very close to him.

I want to thank both of our witnesses. Commissioner, thank you, and the national taxpayer advocate, Ms. Collins, thanks for your willingness to help the committee with this work.

Is there a way we could phaseout those vehicles, replace them in the short term with combustion engine vehicles, as regrettable as that is?

I do welcome today's hearing to examine how we can work with the Postal Service to facilitate its transition to a modern electric vehicle fleet.

We cannot and will not go along with that.

We put $8 billion in the Build Back Better Act. I think $6 billion was for vehicles and $2 billion were for infrastructure.

Over 136,000 of those vehicles, about 63 percent of them, are so-called 'long-life vehicles' that have been on the road for an average of 29 years.

It would be a huge benefit to a lot of these people all over the country, Louisiana to Massachusetts, if we could get clean on our postal fleet.

I would like to thank Chairwoman Maloney for her steadfast focus on this issue.

I would like to see that, you know, as a compromise invested in and acted upon by the United States Postal Service.

The American people deserve the simple task that we accomplish as their congressional servants that we ask the right questions.

Mr. DeJoy's investment in a fleet that is only 20 percent EV is simply not enough.

Thank you for hosting the Aviation Subcommittee hearing on March 17th, 2022, addressing community concerns surrounding aviation noise.

I have been trying to convince the FAA that we can realign these runways so that we maximize over-the-water landings and over-the-water takeoffs to save the people from the harm that they are experiencing right now.

The FAA has been one of the most unresponsive public agencies that I deal with and that my constituents deal with.

You have got a lot of work to do in terms of doing real outreach and real listening to the people that we all work for.

I hope the FAA will work cooperatively with Congress and local advocacy groups to continue proactively addressing community concerns regarding aviation noise.

I find it hard to believe that only 450,000 people across the country have been complaining about aircraft noise.

The noise is just unbelievable and extremely unhealthy.

You would think, with all of the money that we have collectively in Congress sent to our rail operators, that that inducement would encourage them to be a little bit more kind to our employees.

I, for one, I am very grateful to our rail workers, especially these last 2 years.

President Biden has said that he is prepared to impose swift and severe costs on Russia if President Putin decides to invade Ukraine.