But, the 1,500 is a bottom--minimal requirement, regardless----

I want to ask you a question, Administrator Huerta. First of all, let me commend the FAA, the way you handled the process in reconsidering the exemption for cargo carriers for pilot flight time, duty, and rest regulations.

I guess--it's my understanding there was some errors that may have been made in developing the cost-benefit justification, but the FAA did do the right thing, and did its due diligence to make sure that it got it right.

Not to repeat, but I will repeat Senator Collins' point that we are operating during a time where the game has changed.

I look forward to serving on this subcommittee with you and our ranking member.

we are faced with a fiscal crisis which requires us to say, how can we take better care of the taxpayer dollars.

Our spending addiction in Washington has, at long last, led us to the point where we now face the prospect of record deficits.

Eventually, we will reach a point where investors either stop buying our debt or insist on higher interest rates.

We have to make sure that our employers know that if you are trying to hire illegal aliens, you are doing it knowingly, we are going to find you out and we are going to punish you.

We have to do a better job of conveying to the folks that live in these countries where they are coming north the risks that they face.

Temporary stopgap measures solve little, if anything; they simply put off the inevitable day of reckoning.