Mike Capuano

Who is the regulator? That does not happen in any other industry.

I do not have a problem with the funding as long as it is blind funding.

I think you should have emergency order authority. Corrective action authority takes too damn long and jeopardizes people's lives when we know there is a problem.

Do you have the authority right now to go back to your office and implement the API standards for underground gas tanks starting now?

Not a rule that takes 2 years to get passed because OMB does not do a damn thing.

Yes, what he said. I pretty much agree with all of it, and I especially like the idea of getting a bill out this year.

I think that it is important for the process to have integrity.

I am not so sure how I fit into this bipartisanship. It is not comfortable for my role.

My intent is simply to allow business to do something that I don't think we intended to do in the first place.

I never thought that any law was 100 percent. And I think part of our responsibility is when we do something, if we find a problem with it later on, we should fix it.

I consider myself a great defender and a great supporter of Dodd-Frank and all these items that we have discussed today.

These are small bullet shots right directly to a problem.

I think we have a pretty good system. Can it be improved? Of course it can be improved, anything can be improved.

I don't see how a private entity could possibly care--or should care, again, that is not their role--in the interests of the general public who live underneath these flight paths.

But the taxpayers are supposed to give over billions of dollars of property to a private.

Something is always better than nothing.

It only applies to companies with assets over $1 billion.

If you and your staff can't do it, let me know. I will have it for you in a week.

My understanding is political contributions has received over a million comments.

Clearly, I think America has spoken in every capacity they can to you and to your organization that they want to prioritize this.

No regulation is done because everybody does it voluntarily. All regulations on every group are done because there is always a handful of people who are not good players.

Again, just two points. I think everything has been said. I do want to add that I have been informed that the independent owners and operators of trucking, which represents 90 percent of the owners of trucks in this country, oppose this…

I want the regulation done so that the American people will feel comfortable.

I care that the incentives are appropriately placed so that the American taxpayer doesn't get put on the hook again.

At some point, regulators have to regulate.