Government should be in the business of helping our families.

A good job solves a lot of problems.

We need to make sure we continue to give our States and cities and towns across America a very low-cost way to borrow money.

We are not treating this with the seriousness that it deserves.

I have always thought it was ironic that we seem to be losing the information war, and we are the people that invented Facebook and Hollywood.

But they will be if we do not respond.

I think we are in a new era of conflict.

Which they can do because they do not have to pay the shipping.

I think this is a very, very important hearing.

Here is what I worry about, Mr. Chairman, is that we have a potential here of so over-regulating the people who provide good advice to our small savers in this country that you are driving away that advice.

We do not want to over-regulate our small savers such that they lose the ability to plan for their retirement.

I appreciate very much your being with us today. We look forward to working with you as the appropriations process proceeds.

NextGen I believe has made a big difference. We have been investing in it year after year after year.

The President expressed openness to raising the gas tax in a Bloomberg News interview recently, something that more than 30 States have done.

That seems to undermine the $200 billion initiative, which is expected to be leveraged in a trillion dollar package.

I am very excited about an infrastructure program. The needs are overwhelming all over our country, and I think this is an area where Republicans and Democrats could work together with the administration.

I led the effort in 2013, when sequestration occurred, to ensure that the FAA was provided additional funding.

The public would not be well served by exempting any part of the FAA from annual congressional oversight.