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While I support a repatriation proposal and am completely open to using some of the resulting funds for our infrastructure, the President's budget is based on a reauthorization that is once again funded by a Band-Aid approach.
I mentioned in my opening statement the tragic incident in Lac-Megantic in Canada, very close to the Maine border.
I am again disappointed with omission of the Small Community Air Service Development Program.
I am also concerned that the Department has failed to publish a draft regulation to require a comprehensive oil spill response plan from the railroads.
The President's request includes nearly $16 billion to support investments in keeping our aviation system the safest and most efficient airspace in the world.
It is perplexing to hear the administration talk about how important our Nation's infrastructure is...yet at the same time the administration continues to remain silent on trust fund reforms that must be put in place.
The threat of terrorism around the world is also to disrupt our quality of life, our way of life, our prosperity, and our freedoms.
It is really critical that we stay as a country on offense; we must prevent this risk from coming to our homeland.
There may be some sort of middle ground here because in the case I gave you where the facility is not even a CBOC, it is a mobile unit that is open only 2 days a week, it just does not seem like a reasonable interpretation.
I really think this is something that should be finalized and should not have taken 6 years and still be pending.
I also want to associate myself with the comments of the Senator from Arkansas about slow payment to physicians and hospitals. This is a problem in my State as well.
I rise to support this amendment. This simply simplifies the repayment options for students under the present student loan program, which is, frankly, very confusing--up to nine different programs with confusing names and confusing terms…
It could very shortly turn into a true disruptive technology.
In my experience having good data is what drives good policy, and if people can share an understanding of the data they can generally get to the policy conclusions without that much difficulty.
I would ask Senator Barrasso to come to Maine and tell the people of Maine the virtues of higher oil prices.
One of the realities here is that none of us can really predict where the technology will go.