"the need for a currency or an electronic token that is equivalent in functionality to cash."
"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."
"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."
"Mr. DeJoy's investment in a fleet that is only 20 percent EV is simply not enough."
"We cannot and will not go along with that."
"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."
"I would like to thank Chairwoman Maloney for her steadfast focus on this issue."
"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."
"The American people deserve the simple task that we accomplish as their congressional servants that we ask the right questions."
"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 would like to see that, you know, as a compromise invested in and acted upon by the United States Postal Service."
"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."