I deeply respect my good friend that has offered this amendment, but I have a couple questions. One, I have had the privilege of visiting a private company; it has developed a truck stop process whereby the trucks do have the same thing my…

well, I am just concerned about that because this company called Idle Air, it has done an outstanding job, and they are trying to do the job right without any government money or support. And they are doing exactly what my colleague wants…

we do have some problems with weight limitation on these trucks. Four hundred pounds does not sound like much; but if you add all the trucks up, we do not know the ramifications of the weight factor on the roads. And I really think the…

I also rise in opposition. I understand what the gentleman from Arizona is trying to do, and I want to compliment the gentleman. He is one of the few people in this body who did not ask me for any earmarks. I do thank him for that. I…

In title I, strike the text of section 1105 (page 31) and insert the following: (a) Oversight Program.--Section 106 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by striking subsection (h) and inserting the following: ``(h) Oversight…

Mr. Chairman, the amendment under consideration would make improvements to H.R. 3550 as well as to make some technical corrections. More specifically, it would require more oversight of the use of Federal funds for transportation projects…

Mr. Speaker, this House passed H.R. 3783, the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004, which provide for a 4-month extension of the highway construction, highway safety, transit, motor carrier and surface transportation research…

H.R. 3783, the legislation now under consideration by the House, will continue for an additional 4 months the highway construction, highway safety, transit, motor carrier, and surface transportation research programs. These programs will…

this is a good bill, but I have some concerns. There are 60 separate authorizations in this bill; 10 were cleared through my committee. The remaining came from the other body. What bothers me is we have sent over to the other body a WRDA…

I cannot specifically answer the gentleman's question at this time. It is my intent to make sure the vessels, whatever vessels operate in these waters, will be under Coast Guard jurisdiction, and I think that is what the intent of this is…

if the gentleman is referring to page 35, the Bluefin and the M/V Coastal Merchant, I do believe this applies as long as it is retroactive. We do not go back and disown them. We have to probably allow them to continue to operate as…

There will be no Federal funds and not on Federal lands. It is not on Federal property as was just mentioned? I think the point here, and I have, as the gentleman from Oregon knows, some great interest in condemnation proceedings, which I…

because the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pascrell) brought up the name of Alaska, I wish he understood the reasons this is in there. The gentleman talks about jobs. He may not have been to Alaska, but Alaska is in a unique position for…

I will say this: I learned one thing. I will never let a cow out in the pasture without a halter again. This thing sort of got away from me a little bit, but it is still a good bill. It is a bill that should be done; it should be passed…

Mr. Speaker, I will state that the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar) makes a great statement, and I am well aware of what he said about the time frame. As we know, my druthers were 6 months. That probably would not have solved the…

I agree with what the gentlewoman has talked about, about getting out of Washington, D.C. As the gentlewoman knows, I am very sympathetic; and we will be addressing it in the full bill to try to solve some of those problems of having the…

I am just concerned that the way it is written it precludes what we made an agreement to. If I can be assured later on we will discuss it as time goes by.

Because the gentleman referred to the 9th Circuit, it was overturned, because that is a bunch of liberal left- wingers anyway. It was overturned because they were wrong. Everybody knows that.

I will say this respectfully, that sometimes in this game Members learn when to hold them and fold them. But I also would support the gentleman's amendment. This business of archaeology is crucial. It has been proven that these two…

Air travel is coming back, as the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar) has mentioned before. It is important that we look at where we were before 9/11 and recognize that those challenges are raising their heads again: the on-time…

I do think that we have to have the safest air system. I believe, Mr. Chairman, we do have the safest air system in the world. Some of the other countries have changed their systems, but I actually think we are doing a better job. It does…

H.R. 517, introduced by Mrs. Miller of Michigan, would direct the Commandant of the Coast Guard to convey the Coast Guard Cutter Bramble, upon its scheduled decommissioning, to the Port Huron Museum of Arts and History located in Port…

My people, my people the Kaktovik, they want this drilling. The Eskimos that live there want this drilling. They have seen what has happened in Prudhoe Bay, which has in fact increased the population of the caribou, increased the game…

I do believe we need a budget, and he has a tremendous task in front of him. He has done all he could for my area of transportation, and I urge support for this resolution.

The purposes of this bill are to establish a direct grant program to help improve the system-wide security of over-the-road bus operations, and to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to conduct a security assessment of over-the-road…