I was particularly interested in your testimony section on the airports improvement programs.

It is clear in our country that we are trillions of dollars behind in supporting our infrastructure.

But you know when you are talking about saving lives, I would say that that should have been even heavier on the side of the benefit side.

Education has been the great equalizer in my life.

We need to do everything we can at the federal level to make sure that we are partnering with the states.

We need to help the most vulnerable, because that, after all, is what I view is the purpose of government.

I think it's a matter of policy, and it's a matter of priority, and this is something that I'm hoping that before all of your trips are over, and home--coming home--that you might be able to convince the Governor that these are the types…

The difference is, though we may have children on the coast who people may feel are unruly and misbehave, the one thing we have as an advantage is we know who their Tutu and the Grandma is, and their Grandpa, and we can go to see them, and…

I commend Southwest and Alaska for taking the lead. I am wondering why it is that the other airlines such as United, American, Northwest, why they have not proceeded to implement RNP since it saves money, fuel, lowers carbon footprint…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have been talking about NextGen for quite a while in this Committee, and I confess that just sometimes I get very confused as to what we are really talking about.

And are we meeting our job retention and creation goals with the Recovery Fund money?