I thank the Senator for those comments. Using his chart, in Missouri you can buy one blend of gas in St. Louis, another blend of fuel in the Kansas City area, and a third blend yet in between. So, clearly, these areas are not even unique…

It is $3.88 in St. Louis, which would be the area that we have that uses specialty fuel.

Mr. President, I wish to talk about another topic. Senator Kirk and 36 other Members of the Senate are cosponsoring an amendment we would hope to add to the small business bill if we ever get back to it. This is an amendment we offered…

If the Senator will yield for another moment, while we have a hard time dealing with these big numbers--and I think they approach now $3.8 trillion in spending and $2.2 trillion in money coming in--we are adding $4 billion a day. We are…

I thank the Senator. Of course, they have every right to be mad. They have every right to be as frustrated as we are that the work in which the Senator from Alabama is so involved as the leading Republican on the Budget Committee hasn't…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 256, after line 9, insert the following (and conform the table of contents accordingly): SEC. 814…

Again, I know there's a lot of confusion out there, and I hope there's staff listening and there are Members listening in their offices. Again, the Cleveland Air Show, I fly a lot of air shows, and this is one of my favorite air shows. And…

This is an amendment which deals with a TFR, a temporary flight restriction, that complicates things at the air show in Cleveland. There are actually several air shows that this is a problem with, but the Cleveland Air Show happens to be…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 256, after line 9, insert the following (and conform the table of contents accordingly): SEC. 814…

In closing, I want to thank the Rules Committee for making this amendment in order. I very much want to thank the chairman for his willingness to work with us on this issue in the future, and I look forward to that. With that, Mr…

I would first like to start out by saying that I appreciate the Rules Committee making this amendment in order. And while I am going to withdraw the amendment, I think it's very important to talk about this because it's a very important…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 234, after line 1, insert the following (and redesignate subsequent sections, and conform the table of…

Reclaiming my time, in response to that, I can guarantee you that this is my last amendment, for this particular bill at least.

I want to rise in very strong support of the gentleman's amendment. Having flown for over 20 years, I've had firsthand experience with low altitude or low-level obstacles that are out there. I had to make some last-minute corrections just…

Yes, and again I think it's just simply because they don't realize there's still a TFR there. And I probably should have done a better job of explaining that. If in the future it becomes a problem, I want there to be good security. I'd be…

We did not contact the FBI. But we did contact Homeland Security. Homeland Security did not get a response back to us. However, and I've provided to the ranking member of the Aviation Subcommittee the response from the FAA--they took no…

I would close with that, Mr. Chairman, yield back the balance of my time, and urge my colleagues to support the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Graves). The…

Mr. President, I wish to talk a little bit about the McConnell amendment that I think we will vote on on the floor of the Senate this week. This is the amendment that really clarifies whether Congress ever intended to give the…