Is my understanding correct that there's been a reconnaissance study on that and to move to the next stage would require a local sponsor?
The resources you have provided to us have done a great deal to mitigate the problem.
You scratch your head and ask yourself, you know, where's the common sense here?
I just put the money in the appropriations bill. The President just signed my legislation the Energy and Water Appropriations bill just days...
But in order for you to move to the next phase you need a local sponsor?
I'm sure it was not lost on everybody in North Dakota that we came very close to having a significant, significant devastation of the larges...
It's the right thing to do and an important thing to do.
Nobody wants to go through this again.
After many years of review and unanimous agreement on the need for change, little has actually been done.
The very title implies that the process is broken, so our title says this is about fixing it.
But in addition to reducing our long-term problems by facing health care reform, we need to face many of our other problems in order to trul...
There is an increasing disconnect between the public and Washington.
We must make tough choices and solve our own problems.
But when I dissect your answer, it sounds to me like there is a lot that needs to be done in this area
I mean, when we started, I talked about the 1999 upbraiding of the FAA by the NTSB, 10 years prior to the Colgan crash, on icing.
Fatigue clearly played a role.
But you are not going out investigating highway accidents, are you, at the NTSB?
One of the most significant issues here is enforcement, not just recommendations, but with what enforcement do we see the agencies and also ...