Gary Peters

I would certainly hope that we need to have another hearing after the NTSB has come back with their findings.

So a minor correction on this track could have prevented this accident and saved these lives?

But this system could have slowed this train down had it been identified?

We have to move forward with the utmost haste to get this job done.

Every day we delay, we increase the odds of another tragic accident.

I have a motion to recommit at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois). Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?

The government must maintain a role in governance of the system since the FAA is ultimately the guarantor of the public interest.

Perhaps that is what our focus needs to be, to do our job, making sure the FAA has the resources necessary to continue to go forward.

It seems to me ultimately it falls back on Congress, that we are not doing our job here in providing the resources necessary to implement NextGen and other types of reforms.

But also in that process, law enforcement here in the United States understands to let the community lead and back it up.

Local police I think are best suited for this because the local police are the ones who will respond if somebody throws a rock through the mosque.

I think it is important to remember when we are talking about folks who are engaged in these activities with extremism, it is just a tiny sliver of the Muslim community here in the United States.

This group positions itself as the defender of Islam, but its victims are overwhelmingly Muslim.

It is an organic process.

In fact, there are regular protests against the activities of ISIS as a perversion of Islam and not reflective of the broader Muslim community.

Unfortunately, as I am sure all of you will agree, failures in pipeline oversight have become the norm, not the exception.

I offered an amendment to the budget last month, which was cosponsored by Chairman Johnson, to create a deficit-neutral reserve fund to support increased trade and travel.

I also strongly support the preclearance agreement that was signed last month between the United States and Canada.

Well, how do we proceed to the next step to make that a reality? What do we do to move this forward?

I appreciate the agreement reached, which you worked on with the Canadian Government earlier this year, on the New International Trade Crossing.

I would appreciate that if we could elevate that, sir, because certainly the bridge in Detroit is still a few years away.

The Blue Water Bridge desperately needs expansion of its customs plaza, and it is ready for construction of that plaza.

It continues to be an economic drag on Michigan, on the city of Port Huron, and it is really unjustified, in my mind.

And I think we are particularly vulnerable--the one that I am focused on is an oil pipeline that we have across the Straits of Mackinac that is over 60 years old.

According to a 2013 report by the Coast Guard, by your organization, the service and other responders--in that report, it was stated that the service and other responders are not adequately equipped or prepared to deal for a heavy oil…