Byron Dorgan

I've said quite often, and believe deeply, that the United States has an opportunity to show leadership in this area.

How do we fund the research now that's necessary over the longer period to find ways to decarbonize the use of coal?

Well, I understand--from an organization, and from heading an organization, I understand what you're saying, and I admire that.

I guess I'm wondering, with all these agencies--sixteen and eight and three, or whatever--is there somebody that's sitting around...

The question with all of this, for me, is, where does the buck stop with respect to these failures?

It is a completely bogus argument that there is a safety issue. The Europeans have been doing this for 20 years, country to country. It is completely bogus.

It'll make all drug supplies safer, in my judgment, if we pass this legislation.

It's a completely bogus argument that there is a safety issue.

We really are going to be pushy. And we're doing that because we think it's essential.

Anything that's distractive should be forbidden.

I'm convinced that when all the dust settles on all of this that their activities, relentless activities, on behalf of the memories of their loved ones, will end up saving lives.

Well, Senator Johanns, thank you. And thanks for your very active participation on all of these hearings on the issue of aviation and air safety.

We care first and foremost about consumers and their safety.

I think a whole series of things came together in that cockpit that was certainly troublesome to me as an observer after the fact.

So had you been a passenger you wished there had been more training on that exposure that's in flight or right, I mean.

I was disappointed at the last hearing to understand the time has slipped.

I want to make sure that the things that we now know... represent an urgency in the FAA in terms of response.

I believe it was a stick pusher.

NextGen is, for me as well, a major priority. It enhances safety. There's no question about that.

It ought to require all of us to be urgent in our request to the FAA to make progress on dealing with these issues.

We want a good relationship with you, one in which we push and you deliver and America's skies are safer as a result.

But isn't that unbelievable to me? I mean, it's just unbelievable to me that, you know, a commercial license might give you the right to fly a Cessna 210 and use a pressurized aircraft and use a flashlight to see how much dry ice is on…

I simply wouldn't do that.

We are working with the FAA, Air Force and others on the issue of air space for unmanned aircraft.

You want to move aggressively. So I want to help you.