I hope you don't come to the same end he did.

The accomplishment is that we have taken all that variety and diversity and turned it into one country, and we do not talk about that.

We need to do a better job of teaching just what those values are.

It is time to put the teaching of American history and civics back in its rightful place in our schools.

In my, as we call it in the Senate, so-called maiden address, I spoke on this subject, and I said I thought we had spent over the last 30 or 40 years too much time, relatively, on diversity, multiculturalism, and bilingualism and too…

Why in the world do we keep waiting until we get the fifth or sixth fatality when we know, and everyone in the community knows, this is a bad intersection.

I would like your comments on that because I am very interested, frankly, as we write a new highway bill, that we do that.

I believe that the money we are talking about today, frankly, should primarily be going for education issues and behavioral modification issues.

I want to focus my comments on two areas. One is on the aviation industry itself.

Senate Bill 1139, introduced by Senator Mike DeWine and Senator Frank Lautenberg, provides funding for increased enforcement efforts across the country.

I put forward a bill with Senator Hollings and the Commerce Committee, Second Century of Flight.

If other countries are doing this, then we should start a trade action against them.

It seems to me Mr. Secretary that these numbers in terms of cost savings for our highway system are compelling.

There needs to be money. I agree with Dr. Runge, there are States out there that it is more deadly to drive in than others.

For the life of me, I cannot understand how that is an increased safety feature when you say there are going to be more 18-wheelers on the roads instead of less.

We may end up being just an assembler of aviation products rather than the developer and lose all the jobs underneath the system.

Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank you for holding this hearing today and inviting The Honorable Secretary Mineta to testify before us.

Is Ms. Hamilton correct when she is saying that States could actually, under your proposal, divert the money to highway construction?