Madam Speaker, if the gentleman from West Virginia is ready to close, I am ready to close, also.

Madam Speaker, I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the distinguished chair of the Science, Space and Technology Committee, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Hall).

Madam Speaker, I'm pleased to yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Shuster), one of the leaders of our committee and the chair of the Rail Subcommittee.

Madam Speaker, I am pleased to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Herrera Beutler), another conferee and a young leader in the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

I yield myself the balance of my time. Madam Speaker, it is good to be at this point in the completion of a long overdue, major transportation reform bill for the Congress and for the American people. First, I will take a moment and thank…

Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 717, I call up the conference report on the bill (H.R. 4348) to provide an extension of Federal-aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other programs funded out of the…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the conference report to accompany H.R. 4348. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. When the Founding Fathers created our government and established the committees in Congress, they had authorizing committees and they had appropriating committees. In 1808, the predecessor of this…

But that doesn't answer my question. They promised us that, again, a year ago the fall, then the end of the year, then the beginning of the year it would be early this year.

You have been in final clearance for years. If this was a plane, we would have run out of fuel and crashed and burned.

So the Secretary said by the end of the year, and the Commandant said by the end of the summer?