Let me be very clear: The airlines need to pay for flight attendant security training, and it needs to be part of their compensation package.

We need training, training, training, and we need access to information to help us be able to interpret the threat that is around us.

I cannot in any way accept the fact that it is not the responsibility of the airlines and those of us who are passengers.

I did not and I don't believe any Member of Congress hesitated one moment after 9/11 to bail out the airlines.

I have been consistently fighting for what I think is common sense.

I think, in working with the Chairman, I would like to suggest that this is an important issue for this committee, and working with our stakeholders, that we need to focus on ways that we can ensure the highest level security for this…

We want to make sure we comply with regulations, but I understand what you are saying.

I just can't imagine not having consistent inspectors--which my legislation, H.R. 19, tries to address--well-trained Federal inspectors that are consistent all over America when they inspect these railroads.

Simply put, the Administration is acting in violation of the law.

In point of fact, in 1982 when the Nuclear Waste Policy Act was enacted, there was a Republican President, a Republican Senate and Democrats firmed controlled the House.

Congress overwhelmingly resolved to support Yucca development 306-117.

I thank the chairman and ranking member of this committee. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the Thompson-Berkley amendment, which is nearly identical to H.R. 1832, the bipartisan Servicemembers' Telemedicine and E-Health Portability Act…

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 332, after line 24, insert the following: SEC. 713. EXPANSION OF STATE LICENSURE EXCEPTION FOR…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to remove my name as a cosponsor of H.R. 1380. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Pennsylvania? There was no objection. ____________________

Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time. The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Thompson). The amendment was agreed to. Announcement by the Chair The CHAIR. The Chair…

Mr. Speaker, it's incredulous what I am hearing here today from my friends on the other side of the aisle. I was a U.S. Attorney and used the PATRIOT Act. I debated it, I lectured it, and I put a terrorist away by using the PATRIOT Act. I…

we've got an obligation, an enduring, abiding obligation, to do all we can.

I think that evidence-based, evidence-based research and the care that can come from that is going to be critically important.