I rise today in support of the FAA reauthorization legislation before us, as well as the managers' amendment filed yesterday on this key piece of legislation. This is an important bill that will ensure the airport and airway trust fund…

Do you believe that you are on schedule to ensure that the upgraded booster, known as C3, will be able to support the new Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV) fielding in the 2020-2022 time frame?

With regulations like this one, regulations that I consider unnecessary and extraordinarily onerous, regulations like this one, I can only wonder whether the Administration wants to snuff it out completely.

I would hope that you would simply exempt Utah from the rule in light of the fact that we have had great success with it.

I think this is significant, the existing regulatory structure and those being developed by the EPA. In light of these state regulations, in particular, this rule appears to me to be utterly unnecessary.

The Administration has made the claim, a claim that I consider absurd, that its ability to implement policies to reduce waste somehow enables the BLM to regulate air emissions.

I believe these titles are a dramatic improvement over the earlier version of the bill and now more or less strike the appropriate balance between effectiveness in instilling fiscal discipline and respect for the democratic process.

This bill includes reforms that can begin transitioning the island away from elements of cronyism, allow for privatization of an energy sector.

If we cannot get a balanced, bipartisan bill to the President's desk, the consequences for Puerto Rico and the island's creditors are likely to be grave.

This is a good bill.

Without the tools to ensure implementation of extensive government and economic reforms, Puerto Rico will continue to be on the cusp of default.

This bill protects existing creditor-to-debtor and creditor-to-creditor relationships according to existing law and the Constitution.

This is simply a nonstarter and would pile on top of the problems that have led to Puerto Rico's current financial fiscal woes.

The people of Puerto Rico deserve no less.

This is not going to be a bailout. This is going to be an effort to try and establish something based on precedents that have happened in the past.

To establish an Oversight Board to assist the Government of Puerto Rico, including instrumentalities, in managing its public finances, and for other purposes.

We have also seen unprecedented growth in the scope and scale of cyber-attacks aimed at stealing personal information and billions of dollars from taxpayers.

My hope is that we will continue to be able to work on these issues on a bipartisan basis in order to do right by the American people.