RUSS CARNAHAN

Passage of a multi year reauthorization of the FAA is long, long overdue so that we can make critical job-creating, business-expanding, and safety-enhancing investments in our aviation system to ensure it can properly accommodate the…

I think it is critical we have a free, nonpunitive sharing of this safety data.

I believe it's very important that the United States is at the table at the U.N.

If there is anything the last election should have told the rest of the world, it is that the United States can no longer afford to do this.

On the occasion of her retirement, I rise to honor a great citizen of Missouri and the City of St. Louis, Beverly Buchheit. Beverly is a shining example of what our Founders envisioned for America: an engaged and spirited citizen, active…

I am sure that many of my colleagues rising tonight will want to pay tribute to Chairman Jim Oberstar of Minnesota, and every one of us will have a story or two about how the chairman moved what seemed like heaven and Earth in order to get…

I rise today in strong support of S. 3250. This bill has bipartisan sponsorships in the Senate by Senators Carper and Collins. It is the Federal Buildings Personnel Training Act. The legislation passed the Senate by unanimous consent, and…

I rise in support of H. Res. 1669, as amended, which congratulates the National Air Transportation Association for celebrating its 70th anniversary. As this resolution recognizes, NATA played an indispensable role in the development of…

I want to just add my voice to these remarks this evening about our friend and colleague, Ike Skelton of Missouri. He first came to this Congress in 1976 with my predecessor, Congressman Dick Gephardt. That was the first year I voted…

Today I rise in strong support of American manufacturing. The Make It In America agenda creates jobs in America, reversing the flow of jobs overseas, and rebuilding the manufacturing base in America, providing good jobs for hardworking…

Instead of working together like President Reagan and Speaker O'Neill did in the early eighties to extend the solvency of Social Security, this week the Republican leader announced his plan to raise the Social Security retirement age and…

Small businesses are the engines of our economy, and their success is critical to our economic recovery and long-term economic growth. Sixty percent of new jobs are created by small businesses, and over half of this country's economic…

During this time of record unemployment, granting a $35 billion contract to a company that has received over $5 billion in illegal subsidies, according to the WTO, makes no common sense. In the end, this is about what is fair for the…

8 years of failed economic policies under the Bush administration left a deep economic hole for the new Obama administration, but three things are clear: It will take some time to dig out; we have made steady progress; and there is much…

Enough is enough. My constituents in Missouri have had enough excuses and delays from big banks and Wall Street. That is why my Democratic colleagues and I have been fighting for commonsense regulatory reform and consumer protections…

I can't think of a better time than now to invest in America's can-do spirit. I would like to thank our chairman, Bart Gordon, for his years of devotion working to ensure that America is prepared to compete globally. America has been at…

I would like to thank Chairman Markey for his leadership and all the others involved in this legislation, the Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010, and also, in particular, Representative Welch and the other sponsors of the bill that have…

I want to thank the gentlelady from California for her leadership and work on this important legislation, supporting the MS Awareness Week. Every week, around 200 people are diagnosed in this country with MS; and, indeed, there's been a…

Federal taxes are very considerably lower by every measure since Obama became President. That's a quote from President Reagan's domestic policy adviser, Bruce Bartlett. Congress and the President have enacted an array of tax cuts which are…

As a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Aviation Subcommittee, and representing the St. Louis region where aviation has been vital in our history and our economy, I rise today in strong support of passage of…

It's an honor to be here and to speak on behalf of this resolution that honors the members of the Agri-business Development Teams that have been operating. These are joint missions that combine some of the best of our military…

Thousands of my constituents have shared their health care stories with me about America's broken health care system, like Christopher from St. Louis. He said, I stayed in a job that I hated for 5 years just for the insurance. Or like…

These issues are ones that should bring people together in a very focused way.

One of the things that you have very, I think, eloquently described is this problem with the silos of effort out there.

I don't know anything about police training, but if I had a $2.5 billion contract, I think I could figure out a way to train police.