Frank Lautenberg

We are anxious to hear from you as soon as that can be done.

Safety is the most important issue and there will be no compromise on safety.

Well, it's going to be someplace. I mean, you can't get more liquid in a quart bottle than the quart was intended to hold.

There ought to be a formula established that says, OK. You want to cut the funds that go into the FAA, OK, then here's how many controllers we have.

Newark Liberty is a complex airport due to high volume of flights, congestion, New York-New Jersey airspace, constrained runways.

We still have increased salary for high-cost areas?

Thank you, Madam Chairman. I was beginning to feel kind of lonesome here, because we introduced the Chairperson, then the Chairman of the Committee, the Ranking Member and then members of the Committee.

In 2006, a former FAA Administrator informed me that Newark Liberty air traffic control needed at least 35 controllers to move traffic safely.

But the very obvious glitches that are in here, when you look at, now, six incidents in which air traffic controllers and supervisors were caught sleeping on the job, forcing pilots to land planes with no assistance.

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I close with thanks to all four of these people who do a terrific job, and their teams do a terrific job, but we're going to hound you to death to even make it better if we can possibly do it.

Thank you, Secretary Chu for the wonderful work you do for our country and for helping us now to try and solve problems that will directly affect how our economy recovers and how we protect ourselves from a lack of energy to fuel our needs.

The United States leads the world in fuel cell patents.

Earlier this month, you appointed a panel to study and make recommendations on the practice of fracking.

We will be anxious to get the panel's report, and hope that we can establish the fact that this does not present other environmental problems.

So that is a key item in the development of the high-speed system.

We see really good progress being made.

We know that these are soft points for terrorists.

I commend the administration for recognizing the importance of the Northeast corridor.

It is good to be sitting with colleagues who understand the urgent need to get on with investing in rail systems, and Amtrak particularly, and improving the opportunity to get cars off the road and improve air quality and save money on…

We have seen it abundantly in New Jersey, where we added a couple of new rail sections, and within a very short period, businesses will move to places convenient to train travel.

To remain competitive globally, America must strengthen its high-speed rail network and give more people access to faster trains.

However, it is not enough.

Without question, a tunnel is essential.

as I stand here today, I am trying to figure out what our activities look like to the average American. They know we still have serious economic problems, though we are on a good track, and I think it is fair to say we are feeling a little…