Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for holding this hearing. I want to thank the panel of distinguished witnesses.

I also want to thank the previous panel. The families of the victims who had the courage and selflessness...

I do not think it is politics when legislators, like ourselves, discuss ways to protect the people that we represent and the people of our country.

It doesn't seem like there is an existing policy within our public housing authorities that prioritizes the ability of handicapped individuals to live in comfort.

I think we all struggle with this in our districts, and I do particularly.

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

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…

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.

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

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.