I do not intend for there to be another short-term extension of our FAA bill.

I thank both Ranking Member Brown of the Rail Subcommittee, who's leading this legislation on the floor tonight, and Chairman Petri, the chairman of the Aviation Subcommittee, for their leadership and also directing in a bipartisan manner…

it is the policy of this administration to reduce the miles traveled per person.

Congresswoman DeLauro's bill would do, so it is not able to leverage or gear its own capitalization by issuing debt.

the bipartisan infrastructure bank that Senator Kerry and Senator Hutchison have introduced maintains ownership of the corporation by the Federal Government.

I have been a strong proponent of creative and innovative financing methods, especially in a time when we have limited Federal resources.

we can't continue to have an aviation system that relies on 1950s and 1960s, even 1970s, technology

I would like to yield 1\3/4\ minutes to one of our vice chairs, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Hanna).

Mr. Speaker, in closing, we do need to move forward. This isn't the time to bicker. This is the time to put people to work. This is the time to pass long-term reauthorization. I said earlier this cannot be another Band-Aid. We have had 21…

the idea that somehow it is all or nothing is an unacceptable economic proposition.

I yield myself 30 seconds. Again, just to deal with facts and reality, I think Mr. Cantor, myself, and others on the Republican side support transportation, building the country's infrastructure and jobs. But we have to look at what took…