They're both high priorities. The tax credit has been a high priority within the short-line industry.
It seems like a kind of a one-size-fits-all type of legislation that was put in, and it, quite frankly, isn't working on the actual crew fat...
Well, all that has done is affected the paychecks.
Well, we ought to get the rest of you guys in this discussion, right?
Well, let me just, in closing, say there's no question this is a hugely important issue to South Dakota.
But, some of the ideas under consideration, I think, would involve more dialogue between shippers and railroads.
Obviously, everybody here, and all of you, want to make sure that we're taking whatever steps we can to make airline travel as safe as is hu...
I'm interested, too, in something that was raised in--and I'm not sure which of your testimony--but, it had to do with this.
I can see where that would be fairly complicated, and certainly be an imposition on pilots.
Given the primary thrust of the stimulus was job creation, can anything be done to speed up the timing of some of those awards?
Let me just ask one question with regard to an issue that I think is on everybody's mind these days, and that is the fiscal situation that w...
I can say, having served for a number of years with her in the House, there is not anybody who cares more about the people that she represen...
Well, I can say I think we look forward to working with you on that subject as well.
I think public service is a very high calling.
I would hope that this Committee would work toward making a change because that, to me, is not something that ought to be a part of any equa...
There is a different definition in the Farm Bill, however, than exists in the Energy Bill which many of us have tried to rectify.
I think that is the correct one. It makes it possible for many of these areas of the Country to participate in renewable fuel production.
If that kind of a law is enacted, a cap and trade program would have sweeping implications for agriculture and for the entire economy.
