Dan Lipinski

I want to commend Ms. Sanchez for her work on this amendment and also on cybersecurity in general on the Homeland Security Committee. From my time as a university professor, I understand the importance, first of all, of the cooperation…

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people fall victim to Internet fraud so it's really clear we need to improve our cybersecurity awareness and education. There are some who are especially vulnerable to falling victims to this fraud. So…

As a small businessman, I am pleased to support a bill that will assist many fellow business owners and employees throughout my district in Missouri and all throughout the country.

I strongly urge the bill's passage, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I really believe that we must buy American. I think that is really crucial.

I want to make sure that we have a bill that provides significant investment to meet the long term transportation needs of our country.

The field of nanotechnology holds great promise for our future, and it's critical that we do all that we can to help ensure that America leads the way in nanotech innovation. H.R. 554 will place the U.S. in a key position to drive…

If we are going to spend all of this money, we should be spending it here in America.

I wish it was 800 billion for roads.

Mr. Speaker, this is another great effort that we are making, another important step in helping to reduce our energy consumption in this country. It's critical for national security, our economic security and to combat global climate…

I thank Chairman Wolf, Ranking Member Mollohan for their support on this amendment; and I thank them for accepting the amendment.

I want to say I compliment my colleague from Illinois for putting this amendment forward. It certainly is an issue that has been uppermost in my mind and in Speaker Hastert's mind for a long period of time. In speaking to him about this…

I would also ask that the committee give this issue more review and consideration as we consider future legislation, be it a technical correction amendments or the reopener legislation that the bill before us envisions.

I am saying my position is simply expressing to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) what my understanding is of the Aeronautics Act in the State of Illinois. The legislature is not involved.

The gentleman refers to the State legislature in the Illinois Aeronautics Act. It is my understanding reading it and talking to other people about it that the Illinois legislature is not involved in the process at the present time. It is…

I would just like to speak on one point. It has been mentioned here on the floor that the Governor is not in favor of this legislation. I spoke to the Governor Friday afternoon, and he is still in favor of this legislation. Now, if he…

Well, probably the wisest thing in regard to this particular situation would have been to wait until next year when we reauthorize the Aviation Trust Fund. Then we could have dealt with many, many of the concerns that have been raised here…

Mr. Speaker, I am very proud and privileged to rise today to support this resolution. These American heroes launched the first offensive action of the United States of America's war on terrorism. They truly are American heroes. They knew…

I would simply like to go back once again to the O'Hare situation, though, so everyone realizes that the system is broken and the system has to be repaired as quickly as possible. Of the eight screeners who were suspended last Saturday by…

I wanted to get back to this O'Hare situation... to protect the American people from things like this.

I just wanted to state, since it was mentioned earlier that a police union supports the Young-Mica bill, that the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, is a strong supporter of the bipartisan substitute…

I voted against because it did nothing for the laid-off aviation workers, and it did nothing to upgrade aviation security. I said at the time that we can give the airlines all the money they want and even more, but if we do not upgrade…

I would simply like to make mention at the present time, the gentleman from Florida (Chairman Mica) has talked about the failure of the FAA and the Department of Transportation to put rules in place over the course of the last 5 to 10…

I can understand somewhat subsidizing an industry that is creating jobs here in the United States of America. I think that that sometimes is good public policy. But to me here we have a law, a program, which is costing the American…

I do want to say that the Federal Railroad Administration, underneath the leadership of the administrator, has been very understanding, has been very cooperative, because they recognize the huge impact this rule has on the City of Chicago…