Pete Stauber: “Rural America must be placed on a level playing field.”

Our pilots and air traffic controllers are not going to lose their job when they ask for help. We in this country must recognize that that's strength.

Mr. Speaker, I am so proud for this body to pass this. As my colleague, Mr. Sherman, said, it is also coming from the Senate. It came from the Senate. The fact of the matter is, as Chairman Williams says, it was more than a hockey game. It…

The House of Representatives passed this bill unanimously last September, but the Senate, unfortunately, never took it up. It is my hope that after this House passes the bill today, the Senate will quickly take it up and send this good…

You’re not going to see this member demonize federal workers. I was one of them.