"I appreciate your holding this hearing."
"I want to get something straight. When you were asked by Mr. Cohen about--you were saying you had films of evacuation drills."
"I would congratulate United. They brought back real United to Eugene, and the flights actually go, versus fake United."
"I would love to--because I have always wanted to watch one of these drills."
"I mean just think back to last summer. Hundreds of thousands of people were stranded and displaced for days."
"the Enbridge Pipeline, which leaked for quite a period of time, 1 million gallons of tar sands, mostly unrecoverable, in the river, because simple leak detection was not effective."
"If that happened in the hull of an airplane, it would come down and people would die."
"As might have been noted, I am particularly concerned about lithium batteries on aircraft."
"But I have got to say I still disagree, and I am hopeful that in the next FAA reauthorization we can correct this discrepancy."
"the gas explosion in San Bruno, California, killed eight people because of problems with the pipe and the pipeline itself."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will have an opening statement, because I think this merits a lot of discussion and scrutiny by this committee."