Runway incursions are listed by the NTSB as a major safety concern, and so it should be.

One way to improve air traffic flow is highspeed rail.

I'm just losing patience. We've got to find a way to pay for this.

I'm also hopeful that the Obama Administration and the FAA will reach a long overdue collective bargaining agreement with our controllers.

There's always an excuse. There's always a reason.

Everything that the President talks about--and that is, you know, carbon release and wasted time and damage to the economy and frustrated people and people not having reason to have confidence in their government, et cetera--all comes…

In Olympia Snowe's and my bill, which I hope that you'll all cosponsor, we go very aggressively after this question.

I just want to put myself down as somebody who is very concerned and is determined to make a difference in this Committee on this subject.

As you may know, Chairman Rockefeller and I created the E-rate program, which provides discounted telecommunications services to schools and libraries.

Nobody ever said we were a sane institution, but we prove it, particularly in the early times.

I think that you understand--I know that you understand Main Street, and I know you understand the way the people of your State are thinking and the way the people of the Nation are thinking.

The second option--which I will be proposing in forthcoming legislation--is to completely overhaul the inter-agency trade enforcement process.

I see NOAA as a leader in providing the science and information needed for wise decisionmaking as this Nation faces significant challenges such as climate, energy and the health of our ocean and coastal resources.

We are going to be a larger part of the process in the future, working with you, always working with you.

The department which you will be taking over, it surprises people, I think, sometimes to find out how huge the scope of it is.

I am delighted to have the support of my friend, the esteemed Chairman of this Committee in advancing the first of these options with the Snowe-Rockefeller 'Trade CLAIM Act'.

This funding shortfall has been calculated at $4.2 billion nationwide in 2008, or to put it another way, a loss of $12.48 per patient, per day.

The quality of our Nation's research in science is the single most important factor in meeting the challenges of climate change.