It appears to us it's a $500 million to $1 billion that's a shortfall.

I think a lot of this is about money, I would say to you, because you can put some very inexpensive pilots in some of those seats and save money, but I'm not sure that that's what the passengers and traveling public in this country would…

Our subcommittee will want to work closely with you and with your staff in the Department of Energy as we work through the markup of an appropriations bill going forward in the coming fiscal year.

I feel very strongly that the administration has solicited the service of someone who's extraordinary.

I would suggest the legislation be amended to include the possibility that the several states can regulate geologic sequestration activities.

We must proceed cautiously and with measured steps, rather than rushing headlong into carbon sequestration activities.

Wyoming has taken the policy position that it does not make sense for the 550,000 citizens of the State of Wyoming to take liability for injected carbon dioxide.

Of course, it's legal by the current FARs. It's not safe and we need to change it.

I don't ever, in a hearing want to suggest to the American people that when they get on an airplane they are in any way unsafe.

We cannot afford to lose one airplane, one passenger, one pilot without looking at how we can do it better.

The technology has marched ahead but the Air Traffic Control System has not.

We ought to get about the business of modernizing the Air Traffic Control System.

But as I said earlier, we're going to hold a hearing on safety, I want to do that very soon, which will include some of these issues.

There are occasions when I wonder whether there are certain kinds of flights in which there is substantially less experience in the cockpit.

The one thing we do need to get rid of in this industry is the statement, well, it's legal, the FAA says it's legal, therefore it must be safe.

I think this panel demonstrates the breadth of the issues one has to consider.

The Travel Promotion Act... would create a public-private entity that could speak with the authority of the U.S. Government to tell the world, 'We want you to visit.'

We have once again reintroduced a bipartisan piece of legislation called the Travel Promotion Act of 2009.