Jerry F. Costello

Without question, the actions taken by the NASA are not even close to sufficient to retain critical human spaceflight skills and capabilities.

I have concerns about the administration's 31 percent decrease in funding for fossil energy R&D.

Improving and expanding the use of biofuels will reduce our dependence on foreign oil, lower our emissions, and create millions of American jobs.

This budget will keep the U.S. on a path to achieving energy independence and maintain our leadership in energy innovation.

I applaud NASA's new focus on working with community colleges to prepare students for pursuing STEM education.

And just for the record, I call the other body the black hole. Everything that goes over there disappears and never comes back.

We urge Congress to act swiftly to pass this Committee's bill, H.R. 3371, into law.

I don't think anybody in the House can think of another big bill that would do more to help the economy and create jobs...

I think it is accurate to say that almost everybody on our side of the aisle... feel that the cap and trade bill and the health bill... will destroy jobs.

It is clear at least to me--I can't speak for other Members of the Subcommittee--that we can no longer rely on recommendations by the FAA, that some standards are going to have to be changed.

I can assure you and the family members who are with us and those who could not be with us today that this Subcommittee is not going to let this issue slip away.

My experience has been too often when you leave it up to the airlines... it doesn't get done if it is voluntary.

Lives depend on it.

This is simply unacceptable. I have asked the inspector general to conduct an extensive review of fatigue issues.

If we leave it up to the airlines to regulate themselves, it will not happen.

Many changes have taken place since the FAA arbitrarily imposed the age 60 rule in 1960. The age expectancy of a person living in the United States then versus today goes from 60-something-years-old, in the early 1960s, to 77 years today…

It is a safety issue. It is a commonsense amendment that clears up a double standard. The Poe amendment simply requires that as a condition of receiving an FAA certificate to work on U.S. aircraft that workers must meet a basic safety…

The Blumenauer amendment does not affect the language on independent review. The Blumenauer amendment will make the study process more efficient, and for that reason I ask my colleagues to support the Blumenauer amendment and support the…

Our interstate system is almost 50 years old; 32 percent of our major roads are in poor or mediocre condition; 29 percent of our bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete; and 36 percent of the Nation's urban rail…

If we defeat the rule, we can come back and debate the issue of outsourcing. I have to believe there are a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle who will vote against this rule in order to move forward with the study so…

I frankly believe if this amendment had been allowed in order and debated, I cannot see how any Member of this House would vote against an independent study addressing the major problem that we have in this country of outsourcing jobs.

Let me first say I was utterly amazed in the Committee on Science when I offered my amendment. I thought it would be noncontroversial. We had a number of amendments that there may have been some controversy and debate back and forth on…

I assure her, as I do my other friend from California and the California delegation, that I intend to work with them to address this issue in conference. The goal of my amendment is to create a level playing field for both for- and…