"I am very concerned about the abuse by some people. These are generally very casual recreational users who are operating outside the law."
"We need to maintain America's lead in aviation and aerospace, and that is going to require a much more nimble and proactive FAA."
"There was a provision that I got in the short-term authorization requiring the FAA to go forward with a pilot project, I hope to hear about that, to intercept or otherwise disable drones that are oper..."
"if they want to leverage private investment and they are looking for a program that works, they should be proposing an increase in funding for this program rather than a decrease."
"I think this is extraordinarily important and should be a bipartisan effort in reauthorizing the brownfields law."
"I have looked at the President's proposal and the so-called skinny budget, and for disaster, it is a disaster."
"And, by the way, don't call the Federal Government because we won't be there."
"It is absolutely nuts. But we are going to cut real preparedness to do this."
"To cut 25 percent of the budget for preparedness grants, to cut the pre-disaster mitigation funds, that is whistling through the graveyard."
"We have been working for a generation to connect ourselves to the economy of Chicago, which is larger than the economy of Sweden."
"But all of this effort for a generation will be for naught if that capital investment grant program is not adequately funded."