I rise in support of the amendment. It does not add cost. It does not add any burden on the process, but it does add an element of review in the evaluation of these plans and that is to take into consideration sea level rise that's already…

The gentleman from New York (Mr. Bishop) and the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. LoBiondo) deserve very special recognition and appreciation for their collaborative work taking the lead on this legislation to bring new focus and new energy…

This amendment makes technical changes to the underlying bill. It ensures the continued competitive nature of the National Estuary Program. We ensure that the program evaluations will assess whether the implementation of a comprehensive…

I was shocked to find out that for those airlines who don't have higher standards, that they can hire someone with 250 hours of experience and put them up there on the flight deck. This didn't become apparent to a lot of the American…

First, I have made it clear from the outset that the process in which we find ourselves on the House floor is due to the means by which the Senate brought their bill through the Senate and sent it over to us, and one aspect of that is that…

This procedure under which we are acting on this bill is complex and has raised some concerns both in the Rules Committee and in discussion of the rule, so I just want to clarify some things. The rule states in part: to concur in the…

The gentleman is aware that has been resolved and settled, and in my remarks I said that is a provision that we have already agreed that would be dropped because it's no longer necessary.

Airlines are free to engage in alliances and have been ever since the Deregulation Act of 1978. The threat to competition and to airline prices and fairness in the marketplace is to bless that relationship, codesharing, with immunity from…

I thank the gentleman for yielding and compliment Mr. Costello on the splendid job he has done in crafting the FAA authorization bill, and the partnership with Mr. Petri, and also with Mr. Mica, the Republican leader on the committee who…

I also urge the other body to act on H.R. 4786, which we passed March 10, to correct an additional problem created by the filibuster in the Senate that caused highway authorization to lapse and 1,922 Federal Highway Administration career…

And the Secretary of Transportation said that he has made the shift within the administrative account, but cannot make the payment because he needs authority from Congress to do so. So we quickly drafted the bill with their technical…

That makes the gentleman from Florida, Madam Speaker, the author of the longest surviving authorization of FAA programs.

Today the House of Representatives crosses a historic threshold in the evolution of social justice, quality of life, equity of health service delivery, and a worthy legacy for our children, with passage of comprehensive health care reform…

There is a very important provision of this bill that we are hoping to pass for a second time to send back to the other body, and that is to correct the lapse in payment to 1,913 employees of the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal…

As I went on to explain in meetings of the caucus, meetings with our committee members on both sides of the aisle, the Senate version of this bill directed major highway discretionary program funding to a select group of States: four would…

We are here on both sides of the aisle this morning on a mission of equity, fairness, even mercy, on behalf of 1,922 career Federal employees of the U.S. Department of Transportation. They were unintended victims of a standoff in the other…

In closing, I wish to express my great appreciation to Mr. Mica, the senior Republican on our committee and my partner and good friend and co-participant, in all of the works of our committee. I share with him this tragic fact of the loss…

The letter to Senator Reid from Senator Boxer, the chair of the Senate Public Works Committee, and Senator Murray on the Appropriations Committee, that letter will be available at this desk to show that we will restore the funding formula…

I would just point out to the distinguished gentleman from Texas, there isn't a single new provision in this bill that hasn't been available since last December.

Under the programs in the stimulus, under the jurisdiction of our Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, we can account for 1,091,005 jobs in the past year, 1 year from date of enactment. We have this documented in 14 consecutive…

I was so troubled by the remarks of the gentleman from Texas, for whom I have great respect. I think he was making more of a political argument than a substantive discussion of the matter at hand. In December, the House passed the Jobs for…

But there are two issues in this bill that I was very concerned about. The Senate passed a bill that had a funding formula that was very, very discriminatory. Four States benefited with 58 percent of the funding and 22 States got nothing…

I think that your groups should lay out the fact that they are in trouble now, and if we don't get this thing done, what impact, the rippling effect it is just going to have on your ability to plan highways to the future.

I think it's important to highlight the ongoing concerns generally about the so-called 'stimulus bill.'

There have been extensive reports on, frankly, the scandalous use of some of those funds and on some of the reporting of some of those funds.