
What percentage of the delays do you think, in the New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia area can be attributed to general aviation aircraft using air traffic control resources?
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What percentage of the delays do you think, in the New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia area can be attributed to general aviation aircraft using air traffic control resources?

Ninety percent of all general aviation aircraft are excluded from our bill.

the performance just continues to go down, and people are tired--I mean, I think people in--who travel regularly just think it's a race to the bottom with air service in this country.

If the FAA implements measures to limit operations at airports in congested airspace, will those limits extend to general aviation airports in the same airspace?

there is this sense that there's been this huge wave of products flowing into the United States

"I firmly believe that the problems we're now seeing with Chinese-made toys and other consumer products is just a symptom of a much larger problem that must be dealt with in a swift and vigorous way."

And that that's what you're going to enforce.

And we're going to do everything we can to stop these problems, period.

Would you like to have people in China--do you think that is important?

Even if it's banning whole sets of products, until we are sure that there is no lead in any of them, period.

If you need any additional legislative authority from us to do it, let us know.

I hope in the appropriations process we can insert some of this language, so that we not only increase the funding for the agency, but we give it the authority necessary to fix the problem.

you do get people manipulating the marketplace

But I think we're asking for problems in this.

We're going to start shutting all of these down.

But isn't it best to say, 'Look, if there is any lead in any of these products, the products don't enter America, period.'

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ms. Greenberg, I hope you'll work with us on statutory authority, that I hope we can put in the appropriations bill and that the authorizing committee will agree with, so we can move that through rapidly, so that…