Byron Dorgan

The issue is, there's already a rule. I mean, the rule would have told both of those pilots, 'You can't show up at LaGuardia and spend your time in the crew room. You've got to get rest somewhere.'

The thing that troubles me is, we now have done an unbelievable inspection of what happened in that cockpit of one airplane taking one flight, and it appears to me to have about six or eight very serious problems.

You'd better believe we would.

I mean, the FAA has to make sure that carriers are doing what the FAA wants them to do.

I want to thank you, Chairman Dorgan, for your many years of dedication and commitment to the welfare of Indian people

The point isn't always more money. The point is, a little more sanity in some of these requirements and rules and regulations.

I am going to intend, as my colleagues will, I am sure, to push as hard as I can for fairness and for meeting the promises this Country has made.

I am encouraged to see that in some areas, there are proposed increases for programs to address Indian health care and public safety issues.

This Committee says, in these areas, our Government signed treaties. In these areas, our Government made explicit promises.

The sad fact is, for a long, long time, we have not kept the promises we have made.

I am very concerned about the budget in some areas, concerned about the proposal for cuts in construction programs for tribal schools, jails and housing.

Proposing cuts to these programs is not an answer, especially if it is connected to the money that we put in the stimulus or the economic Recovery Act.

I think it's clear from this discussion, that we all know we are unbelievably dependent on foreign sources of oil.

I think it's time for a public/private partnership so that the United States will be not only the place to develop the technology, but the place to implement it and commercialize it.

The question is whether we let things happen and perhaps do nothing to address these questions, or whether we decide, as a matter of public policy, to make things happen.

We're really concerned about this imbalance with the Chinese. Fix it, Congress. You owe it to us, as an automobile manufacturer, to fix it.

In the Bilateral Trade Agreement that we did with China, with whom we have a $260 billion merchandise trade deficit, after a phase-in, the Chinese automobiles, when exported to the United States--and they are coming--will have a 2½ percent…

Nobody knows what ARRA is, in terms of the acronym, but it's the stimulus funds or the economic stimulus funds.

I offered the Buy American provisions in the Economic Recovery Act, and, you know, some of my colleagues had an apoplectic seizure about it.

What is required is coordination and support to push past initial regulatory and financial hurdles.

I think this investment can yield very significant results.

We have before us a responsibility, a necessity to act to put our Nation on a pathway toward once and for all ending our dangerous dependence on petroleum and leaving a stronger, safer America in its place.

The electrification of a large segment of our short-haul transportation is highly cost efficient.

I think that moving toward an electric drive future makes a great deal of sense for our country.

I guess all of you are betting on a future that many of us hope will exist, and it probably will only exist if we understand the need to change public policy to try to lead in that direction, as opposed to sitting around and waiting for…