I look forward to substantial results from that study.

So we've spent a lot of time thinking about and working on and working with local government officials with respect to flood control on the Red River.

After what happened last spring in North Dakota with a very substantial amount of flooding many parts of our State, we, of course, became very active on the Red River.

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.

There is a requirement that FAA has put out that in 2010, new aircraft must be equipped with 2-hour voice recorders.

I do think, though, that we have not always done the best job we can in our agencies to make sure that we understand what needs to be changed and how do we make sure it happens.

With respect to the 90 minutes of an airplane flying at 37,000 or whatever its altitude, the country, the authorities were all deaf and blind for an hour and a half with respect to a commercial carrier, which is just unforgiveable.

It is unacceptable that we have the enforcement agency or the other agency that should implement recommendations by and large ignoring them.

The only reason I ask about that. This is a very unusual circumstance since 9/11 of a large commercial airplane flying out of contact for an hour and a half.

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.

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 the carriers implement recommendations.

Is there currently a prohibition by the FAA that you are aware of with respect to the personal electronic devices or personal computers while flying an airplane?

I asked the question not to imply that foreign repair stations necessarily are of lesser quality than domestic repair stations.

I want to just make one final statement, and that is I don't know what happens in the cockpits.

But we are going to call him back in front of the Committee in the near future and ask, all right, you have made certain representations about what you are doing. Let us find out what you did.