Bud Shuster: “I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I will say, point out for the Record, correct the Record, first…”

“I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I will say, point out for the Record, correct the Record, first, the gentleman is correct: Canada is not launching satellites. They are launching modules to go on satellites by the corporation that they own about half of to deploy this GPS-based system. So, the gentleman is correct. Technically they are not satellites, but they are components to go on satellites which will, in fact, see 100 percent of the global airspace, which America should be doing. The next thing I would like to correct is we have had numerous hearings on this. We have had over half a dozen hearings. In fact, we had one just before we marked the bill up. We have had over 12--I think maybe even 14 or 15--roundtable discussions with both sides of the aisle and stakeholders from all over the industries who sat there and talked to us about what they thought is good and what is bad. The concern about safety--as I said, safety stays in government, and today the FAA safety certification portion of it is paid by the general fund. That is appropriate. The other fees, the taxes, we plan to eliminate most of those taxes, eliminate those taxes and go to a user fee-based system. There is plenty of money there. That will go to run the ATC system. This way it will be in a user fee-based system, which history has shown us what Canada has done.…”