And my understanding is the FAA has indicated that's too big, at this point, and the National Guard has said, anything smaller is not accept...
You mentioned operations at Kandahar and that integrates UAVs directly into a very busy airport in which fighter planes and C-130s and all k...
We have Homeland Security, which flies UAVs here.
Both the Defense Department and the FAA have the capability to make this work. And I hope today's hearing establishes the urgency with which...
Are we on pace to be able to meet the needs for training and for airspace necessary for that training at that point?
Well, a report that's submitted to us under the provision I included in the Authorization Act, will that report give us timelines?
I think I understand the answer to that question, but why don't you describe how that can be accomplished in a way that does not, in any way...
The airspace is somewhat of a national treasure, as being part of the FAA, our job is to be stewards of that.
no one is pushing the FAA to do something that would diminish, in any way, safety in our Nation's airspace--that's not the point.
I will not let this issue go until our words are heard and action's taken.
we have responsibilities that we've simply not met.
We've requested, Senator Franken and I, an increase that would bring the funding up to the 2003 level.
we've got to meet them.
Thank you for being a lifelong friend of American Indian people.
we have passed for the first time in I think 18 years the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, we've passed the Tribal Law and Order Act, we ...
the proposal on the Economic Recovery Act had no money for American Indians. Zero.
if there is an uncontrolled release out of the east end of Devils Lake, everybody suffers.
I want to take the opportunity to thank you, Senator Dorgan, for your steadfast leadership in obtaining passage of the Tribal Law and Order ...
