David Price: “I thank the gentleman for yielding. I, too, want to reluctantly express my opposition to this amendment. Madam Chair, I…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. I, too, want to reluctantly express my opposition to this amendment. Madam Chair, I take second place to no one in this body as the champion of the TIGER program, as I hope was evident in my support for the gentlewoman from California's (Ms. Maxine Waters) amendments just now; but we are underscoring in this amendment, while it is worthy in its intent--and I would love to be able to add a lot more money than this to the TIGER program--its offset is very worrisome and one that I think should lead us to oppose this amendment. It comes out of the Federal Aviation Administration's operations account, $100 million out of that account. Now, the bill provides a slight increase for FAA operations, but it is still $67 million below the President's request. This is the account that provides the funds needed to ensure aviation safety and security, so cutting this account is ill advised.”