Mar 25, 2010
How much time remains on our side? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has 9\1/2\ minutes remaining.
James Oberstar
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Jim Oberstar is a former Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving Minnesota's 8th congressional district from 1975 to 2011. He was known for his work on transportation and infrastructure issues, playing a key role in the development of the nation's transportation policies. Oberstar served as the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, where he advocated for improvements in highways, public transit, and aviation. His tenure was marked by a focus on enhancing safety and efficiency in transportation systems across the country.
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Mar 25, 2010
I yield such time as he may consume to the chairman of the subcommittee, Mr. Costello.
Mar 25, 2010
I yield myself 1 minute to respond to a repeated misunderstanding of and misconstruction of the language referring to antitrust immunity. Airlines are free to engage in alliances and have been ever since the Deregulation Act of 1978. The…
Mar 25, 2010
I yield myself such time as I may consume. 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…
Mar 25, 2010
How much time remains on both sides? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Minnesota has 16 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Wisconsin has 18\1/2\ minutes remaining.
Mar 25, 2010
I yield myself 30 seconds. If I had my way, I would eliminate the antitrust altogether, but we're providing a process by which the benefits of alliances that have been given antitrust immunity can be evaluated, determined whether there was…
Mar 25, 2010
I now yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. DeFazio). Mr. DeFAZIO. I thank the chairmen of the full committee and the subcommittee and the ranking member for their excellent work on this. There are a number of issues that are…
Mar 25, 2010
The gentleman referred, Mr. Speaker, to the provision in the bill that covers the air traffic controller contract. The gentleman is aware that has been resolved and settled, and in my remarks I said that is a provision that we have already…
Mar 24, 2010
That makes the gentleman from Florida, Madam Speaker, the author of the longest surviving authorization of FAA programs.
Mar 24, 2010
So we're sending that back to the other body. Majority Leader Reid had cleared the correction that we're sending back with the appropriate members of the Senate committee leadership and the Senate floor leadership, but somehow this…
Mar 24, 2010
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…
Mar 24, 2010
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…
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