These people are on the front lines overseas, and they are representing us.

I visited a site of a terrorist act in one of the capitals.

Let me tell you the last thing before I conclude. I have 7 seconds.

Most of those people that were killed out there in that incident were people. It might have disrupted some freight traffic, but it was people.

We need to make sure that you have the resources, that you set in place a mechanism to quickly certify the technologies.

But the deadline is not going to be met?

We could do a hearing a year from now and see if they've completed the task.

Now we're going to do an FAA bill, guys and gals, and we should hold their feet to the fire again.

It's important, first, for safety.

All politics is local.

We can't delay. I think this is good timing for the hearing.