we've been enormously frustrated... the money doesn't seem to get where it's needed.
trying to move things through OMB is a little like walking through wet cement.
This issue is critically important. It is a national priority.
I'm sorry. I know you make the best case you can, as does my colleague, but it simply doesn't add up.
I think it is the case that if you were betting, you'd probably bet that this FAA reauthorization bill will continue to be blocked.
I am a solid proponent of the FAA reauthorization bill--a solid proponent of it, and a solid proponent of NextGen.
So, is it OK if Congress changes the rules? Do we have your OK?
I know that completely. And the term that you're using was never used in any context externally to the Airports Authority.
you are suggesting people's choices be limited, and you just told me that we have a system here in which people have choice, that's not your...
I'm asking when--that proposal was made and press statements were made about up gauging the airplanes, increasing the size of the airplanes ...
Let me make a point, that in 2007 when GAO said there was additional capacity at National, there was 1.1 million more passengers flying out ...
I don't know if it'll be 2013 or 2014 when we come out of it. I don't know, but we're going to come out of it.
There is nothing that has been discussed today that will ever benefit Bismarck, North Dakota.
I'm telling you, it doesn't add up, it doesn't add up a bit to me.
So whatever operations you're managing, you're not going to have one hour wait times, I assume, at National.
Did Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority weigh in on those issues, saying that, 'Gosh, if that happens, we may have a million more peo...
We must push to resolve the matter of National Airport slots or it will threaten future FAA reauthorizations.
I'm proud to say that the FAA bill actually passed out of this committee and then through the Congress, 93 to nothing, not a single dissenti...
