My hope is to get that FAA bill by working with Mr. Rahall hopefully by Christmas.

Madam Speaker, today I rise in support of the amending the Constitution to include a Balanced Budget Amendment requiring government to live within its means. This week, our national debt surpassed $15 trillion. Our nation faces difficult…

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I would like to yield to the gentleman from Texas for the purpose of entering into a colloquy.

I believe we will now have a long-term bill.

One of the customers for the equipment, the big customer is FAA.

I want to thank everyone for participating, for taking time out of your busy schedules to be with us.

We have not had a long-term FAA reauthorization.

The important thing now is we get the job done, and I look forward to working with everyone in that regard.

Well, you know, you are from the private sector. You are not doing this just to keep all these occupied Wall Street people happy.

Finally, well, two things. One, have you got enough money, and from what you have seen, our authorization does, I think we are going to end up with a higher rather than a lower figure.

Well, the final thing, and if anyone wants to comment, this is a global race, too, because whoever accepts the protocols and develops the technology, the software, the systems, also wins the world market.