James Oberstar: “I explained that in South Carolina our unemployment is over 12 percent. We are the third highest in the Nation.”

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

The City of Marquette kept its part of the agreement, conveyed property to the Coast Guard for $1, and now is going to be stuck with the bill. The problem is that the way the transfer worked out, the statutory PAYGO rules preclude…

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…