James Oberstar: “Does it help that the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 designates the Great Lakes as the fourth seacoast?”

We must move away from complete reliance on public funding for infrastructure and forge a new, stronger connection between private capital and infrastructure needs.

A combination of analysis and tests may be used to show that the airplane is capable of being evacuated within 90 seconds...

I, too, have natural resources--national forests, national parks, wildlife refuges. When fire, as it does regularly, strikes the national forest, that land regenerates. The oil destroys. It likely cannot be restored by itself or by human…

But we all also recognize that the potential cost of meeting these needs is immense.