Tom Latham

If our goal is to put Americans to work, no better way to do it than with the transportation bill.

But you didn't request them.

It is a wonderful goal, but there is no basis for your request.

the message was to cut spending. I don't know if anybody else got that message, but I certainly did in my district.

I think our air traffic controllers do a fantastic job. And it has to be just a really tough job.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. And I appreciate very much what's going on and the reduction of spending. I'm just very concerned that this is not really a thoughtful way of doing it, that if we're after waste, fraud and abuse in our…

This amendment clearly limits consumer choice, and is yet another attack on our Nation's progress to try and achieve energy security. The technology that he is trying to prohibit basically would allow individuals to have a choice as to…

I have to correct the gentleman when he said EPA mandates this. It's Congress, us, that mandated the 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel by 2022. And it's essential, with that mandate from Congress, this is not EPA, that we increase E10…

I, too, share his commitment to NextGen, and I believe that this program is essential to achieving the much-needed improvements in our aviation system. The committee has consulted with the FAA. We believe that these modest savings will be…

If there are people concerned about this, why didn't they come to us and talk to us before? We talked about the different groups out there, and that's because they've been given bad information that's not true. It is clear from the 2007…

I think it is really important to clarify that the rider in the CR is narrowly focused on EPA's new stationary source permitting authority and does not affect EPA's renewable fuels program. Under the 2007 Energy Independence and Security…

The fact of the matter is there will not be a veteran, a homeless vet, that will not get a voucher. The fact of the matter is there are 30,000 vouchers available today. Only 19,000 of those have been used. There are 11,000 vouchers…

What a difference a new Congress makes. We have seen in the last 4 years on the Appropriations Committee a lack of any kind of transparent open process. This last year on the other side of the aisle when they were in control, they didn't…

There are 11,000 vouchers sitting there unused today. There are 19,000 that have been issued. The gentleman knows that we are not cutting those. There are 11,000 still available under this bill. And we are going to review this as we go…

I want to thank my colleague, Mr. Loebsack from Iowa, for joining me in this resolution and his lead cosponsorship on this. The Medal of Honor, like the gentleman just referred to, has quite a history with Iowa in that back on December 9…

I think it is important to understand and remember how we got here. When the Senate passed their bill on Christmas Eve of 2009, there was not a soul on either side of the aisle in the House of Representatives who thought that that turkey…

I rise today to join my colleagues in offering my prayers and condolences to the victims of Saturday's senseless violence in Tucson. To the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives or were injured, know that every Member of…

I thank the chairman for yielding. Actually, I do oppose this. I agree with the idea of putting more money into where you would like to have the money go. My concern is that this is taking money out of reverse mortgages for seniors, and…

I rise in support of the DeFazio amendment for two reasons: First, with the stresses on the Highway Trust Fund and the dependence of our States on the moneys from that fund, we're violating our fiduciary responsibilities by granting…

I just want to tell the gentleman--and I don't want to get into a partisan fight here, but there was not one person on the other side of the aisle who voted to double infrastructure spending in the stimulus bill, spend half as much money…

Mr. Chairman, I am going to be very brief as Mr. Olver has told us an awful lot about H.R. 5850, the fiscal year 2011 Transportation and Housing, or THUD, bill. I just want to say, on a personal level, thank you to Chairman Olver for his…

I would hope that since we've done very well in accepting these amendments this would be one that the chairman would accept also. I know how supportive he is of this. But I really would hope that we could find some consensus and common…

I appreciate the gentleman's concern for spending. I just wanted to see if we could just step back for a second. We're going to have a $1.47 trillion deficit this year. Forty-three cents on every dollar that we're spending is borrowed…

We spend a lot of time talking about jobs in this place. Some people say they're creating jobs; others say they're not. A lot of people are wandering around saying, where are the jobs. But at the end of the day, what is immutable, or what…

I certainly rise in support of the amendment. It is a disaster that happened, and like the gentleman from Iowa said, just to watch that dam collapse and all the damage that went through afterwards was devastating to so many folks. And so I…