What's truly risky is to let the same injustice remain year after year.

The most important thing I'll do is call on you every day to take a risk and do your part to carry this movement forward.

Although language for mandatory deplanement after 3 hours is not included in the FAA Reauthorization bill, I strongly favor requiring a time-frame for deplanements and I look forward to working with the Committee to include an appropriate…

I was appalled, as many Americans were, to see passengers trapped in airplanes sitting on runways for sometimes as much as 11 hours without adequate food or water, overflowing restrooms, and no opportunity to deplane.

That is why I am pleased that the Committee included provisions from the Boxer-Snowe bill to require airlines to provide necessities such as food, water and working restrooms to passengers who are stranded on planes.

I would like the government to give every baby born in America $5,000 for future education or housing costs.

I supported the passenger facility charge. It was a difficult decision to make because of the concerns that I had about some of the modernization that we needed to do.

Do you think it's on track right now?

We need them badly. And we need a system that works.

I think this is a disgrace that they're not here. I think it's a disgrace for our country. I think it's bad for our party.

I do think that the congestion problem is going to continue to grow until we begin to make tougher decisions.

We're going to go forward, trying to do our part, and we need to count on the administration, the airlines, the entire industry, to do their part.

But, unfortunately, the wheels have come off in the Finance Committee, in the House, in trying to find a way to come together in a bipartisan, nonpartisan way.

However, like so many of the things that we complain about in the Congress, we looked around, and we found the enemy, and it is us.

Our Amtrak bill will make passenger rail a real option for travelers.

It's clear Congress needs to act.

The bill Senator Lott and I wrote, the 'Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2007,' was unanimously reported out by this Committee.

There are, in life, speed readers, and there are speed speakers. You all fall in the second category.