Sam Graves

We can all agree that we want clean air and clean water for our communities, and that we have to be prepared for the challenges posed by a sometimes harsh environment.

At the Federal level we need to ensure that our partners have the ability to keep innovating.

Instead of taking the Government-knows-all or one-size-fits-all approach, these laws provide the State, local, and private-sector partners with the tools and flexibility to address their needs and to innovate.

We don't have to live in a fairy tale. And that is where ideas like the Green New Deal come from.

Who actually believes that we can make aviation unnecessary by building some vast high-speed rail system?

We don't live in a fairy tale. That's where ideas like the Green New Deal come from.

I think I share with you, and probably everyone on the panel, strong concern about the delayed implementation, the continued missed milestones of NextGen.

I want to thank the NATCA employees, the PASS employees, and all the Federal employees who worked without pay during the shutdown to keep the economy moving and our skies safe.

Furloughs offer no benefits to America. Quite the contrary.

I think it is awful that the folks who were impacted by this didn't deserve it, and they couldn't solve it.

But with the Green New Deal or the Green Dream, I guess we are not going to have to worry about that in aviation anymore because we are going to shut down the whole aviation sector and all 11 million jobs that go along with that.

I think it is inexcusable, what happened.

I want to thank NATCA employees, PASS employees, and all Federal employees who worked without pay during the shutdown to keep our economy moving and our skies safe.

I think that is wrong. And I think for us to continue to be paid under that scenario is inappropriate.

I want to thank the gentleman for all his hard work on this. This is an easy bill. Mr. Speaker, I urge all Members to support it, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by…

I continue to have very strong concerns... about the interim strategy.

Could you just briefly respond to that, all the uncertainty, the uncertainty in cost, the uncertainty in technology, the uncertainty in acquisition strategy, the uncertainty in dollars?

this is insane, that here we are talking about--and I know, I am going to agree with you, as much as it pains me.

this is crazy that we are talking about--I think that Ms. Mak went through in her testimony and laid out the concerns about how these strategies are going to dovetail.

As one of the only professional pilots in Congress, I rise today in strong support of the long-awaited FAA reauthorization bill. I was happy to work closely with the chairman, ranking member, and all of our Senate counterparts to reach the…

We need to be discussing how to implement this. This is part of their recovery, and we need to make sure that we don't just authorize it, but we actually have a feasible financial plan of how to move forward.

So I would thank you, Madam, as well as all of Congress for the very generous appropriation in the Harvey, Irma, Maria storm supplemental.

I want to thank the gentleman from California for his contributions to the bill, and we will continue to work with you.

I just want to quickly note a couple of other things. One, I do want to thank you and thank your team for the allocation of supplemental funds.

This bill, this is a major infrastructure bill. This passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 408, and there were only 2 confused people.