John D. Porcari: “I still think I'm right, but others don't, so I gracefully exit the field, temporarily.”

It is shovel-worthy. I like to describe it as the single point of failure for 10 percent of America's GDP

Any major infrastructure investments... has required core public funding on a multiyear basis to be effective.

Again, what the sequester is in a part of a fiscal year, because three-quarters of our Department is exempt from it, is the equivalent of a 90 percent cut.

I would point out the easy stuff has been done. Since 2008, within the Federal Aviation Administration, we have cut $510 million out of the cost basis by reducing travel by 30 percent, IT savings of $36 million, $100 million from…