James Oberstar

I urge Governor Lingle to aggressively take action to use highway funds provided by the ARRA.

I think one of the major commitments that the Administrator made, and the Secretary, is to get more line involvement in these types of technologies.

Do you have a graph that you could submit to the Committee for our review of how each of these steps, each of these new technology initiatives fits in, lays the ground work for, is a stepping stone toward the next level, and the cost both…

I give FAA enormous credit, which it doesn't receive in the secular press.

And I give FAA enormous credit, which it doesn't receive in the secular press.

I think these are great. But when they fail, then you are really out of luck.

That is a good step in the right direction.

yes, we are engaging controllers, professional air system specialists as we develop these technologies.

We have probably 100,000 of those types of aircraft that use the commercial airspace, and it is of importance.

I would estimate the FAA has spent something like 10- to $15 million on the several east coast airspace redesigns, each one shelved because some other group said, oh, no, we are going to be impacted by the noise or we don't like these…

All the Digital Age is wonderful. I do not demean it in anyway.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Mr. Petri, and Committee staff for the splendid work in preparing for this hearing and for your continued vigilance, Mr. Chairman, on these matters of aviation technology.

This is a betrayal of the code that we work under in the Congress.

I do not intend to give up on a bill. That is the right thing to do.

I have never seen a Chairman undermined by an Administration in the 30 years I have been around this place like they hosed our Chairman.

The Trust Fund is in crisis. It will go bankrupt next month.

I don't understand the strategy behind the President's decision to delay the highway construction.

I want to thank Ms. Richardson for her courageous and thoughtful and straightforward comment.

I would hope that you would encourage the other members of the Administration to become serious about dealing with the unemployment.

I explained that in South Carolina our unemployment is over 12 percent. We are the third highest in the Nation.

I was actually on the House Floor giving a one minute speech encouraging the President to do something about not delaying the reauthorization 18 months.

We are in a very serious situation and it is turning south as far as unemployment, as far as economic activity in this Country.

The Secretary's analysis is somewhat correct.

This draft truly highlights the Nation's needs for increased roadway safety.

Inertia is the enemy of progress, and we don't have time to wait.