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.

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

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

We cannot and will not go along with that.

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.

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.

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.

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.