James Oberstar

I rise in support of H.R. 548, a bill to honor our former colleague Tony Hall by designating the federal building located at 200 West 2nd Street in Dayton, Ohio as the ``Tony Hall Federal Building and United States Courthouse.'' The House…

I rise in support of H.R. 315, a bill to designate the United States Courthouse located at 300 North Hogan St., Jacksonville, Florida, as the ``John Milton Bryan Simpson United States Courthouse''. I commend the bill's sponsor, the…

I would simply note that the air patrol in Minnesota has a similar program, we call it the Young Eagles, to bring young people into participation in aviation at an early age. It is beneficial to all of aviation.

Given that earlier this week the Majority insisted that Congress increase the debt limit by $800 billion, and that this bill includes an across-the-board cut of everything from cancer research to highway funding, why does this bill…

the language of the bill is limited to restricting or prohibiting design features or operating practices that have resulted in serious or fatal injury.

Mr. Speaker, we are engaged in a most extraordinary process here. The chairman of the subcommittee just now said, at the last minute, now we are confronted with proposals for regulation. Well, at the last minute, we have this bill before…

We all salute the innovation and the achievement that we have recently seen in the early days of private space flight, and we certainly do want to encourage that. But we go a little bit too far in this legislation. I do not understand why…

Yes, this bill was considered by the House earlier this year, but without this language; without any reference to safety and without any consideration. And I disagree that there is no protection if this language were stricken. Under…

Those of us who live on or along the Great Lakes or within the Great Lakes basin know what a great resource this extraordinary collection of individual bodies of fresh water is. It is 20 percent of the fresh water on the face of the earth…

I believe the chairman and I share an opinion, and that is that the greatest threat to today's civil aviation is explosive devices. There are several ways in which the explosive devices can get on the plane. One is cargo. We have already…

Mr. Chairman, I join at the outset with our chairman, the gentleman from Alaska, in expressing support for reserving to the next Congress the issue of jurisdiction of homeland security and how the matter of legislative authority over these…

Here we are again doing an extension. In the famous words of President Reagan, there you go again, doing another extension. But, frankly, you might just call this a no-fault divorce. We tried. The other body tried. The two parties in the…

I rise to join in commending Lance Armstrong on his 6th consecutive victory in the Tour de France. I know that the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Osborne) recognizes the extraordinary accomplishment that winning the Tour de France…

Amendment offered by Mr. Oberstar: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: TITLE ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES PROGRAMS FOR PATIENTS WITH FATAL CHRONIC ILLNESSES (a)…

I earnestly support the extension of the current law as embodied in the pending legislation. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 4916, the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004, Part IV, but I regret that we are forced, for the…

I rise in support of H.R. 3884, a bill to designate the federal building and United States Courthouse located at 615 East Houston St., San Antonio Texas as the Hipolito F. Garcia Federal Building and United States Courthouse. Hipolito…

I rise in support of H.R. 4056, the Commercial Aviation MANPADs Defense Act (CAMDA). Shoulder-fired missiles pose a serious threat to commercial aviation. Al Qaeda, through its actions, has clearly expressed the desire to strike at…

the resolution before us recognizes National Marina Day on August 14, 2004. There are more than 12,000 marinas in the United States providing safe harbor for millions of recreational vessels that operate on the lakes and navigable waters…

The term that we use in this committee, ``investment,'' is the way to describe what our committee is all about. This is a committee about building America, whether it is our inland waterways, our coastal ports, our inland ports, our St…

This is an essential investment. This is an investment. There are a lot of things we do around here where we are spending money. We do not see a real product, but in this case it is an investment in the future of our country. As the…

Mr. Speaker, the late Ronald Reagan was fond of saying, ``Here we go again.'' This is the third act of a play that does not have a number of acts pinned to it yet. In fact, we are setting a record today. This will be the longest extension…

so the answer is right-sizing, not necessarily down-sizing arbitrarily. This year we are seeing a rebound in air travel. There is going to be a 6.8 percent, 7-plus percent increase in air travelers. That will mean an increase in demand for…

I just want to suggest for those who are concerned about snowmobiles and their effect on the environment, they should take a look at the 1,790,000 vans, buses, automobiles, motorcycles, RVs, SUVs, trucks that are rumbling through…

Mr. Chairman, those who are here advocating a limitation or banning of snowmobiles from Yellowstone and perhaps from other national parks are operating under what I am convinced is a misguided understanding of snowmobiling. They are…

I hope we can put aside the unnecessary and overblown hyperbole that has at times crept into this discussion such as Moscow-style bureaucracy; TSA is a joke. TSA is not a joke. This agency, its personnel are engaged in the very serious…