Peter DeFazio

Congress has to do that. Our objective is one, single Federal standard that does preempt the States.

Would 100 percent perhaps be a combination between both the mid-ocean exchange, which does help, to some extent, but isn't perfect, and a treatment system?

So you are saying it is really a dispute between different businesses involved in the supply chain over what is--what they would feel would comply.

Even before you get the warning, if you feel shaking you got to move to higher ground

Are we looking at anything like that here, in the U.S.?

We should--the committee should look at not scheduling hearings in different subcommittees at the same time.

The issue of probably most immediate concern to those of us who live in the Northwestern United States is the threat of Cascadia subduction zone quake.

The Ukraine attack was perhaps a harbinger of things to come.

We know there is constant probing, some of it being done by nation-states, not just terrorist groups, nation-states hostile to the U.S.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I'm going to return to a theme I've brought up for years which is that Congress is not adequately funding the Corps of Engineers.

We have a backlog of somewhere between $48 billion and $54 billion for ongoing budgeted projects.

Proponents of the bill would give away billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded assets to the airlines.

Nor should we risk the safety of the flying public because a few Members of Congress and Senators--arguably, one Senator who is just leaving New Hampshire--want to impose drastic budget cuts.

This air traffic control privatization scheme is an extreme and risky venture that will hand over control of our airspace, in effect, to the major airlines.

I appreciate the opportunity for the hearing, Mr. Chairman, but I really believe that, you know, we are not ready to go forward with this proposal.

I heard repeatedly that the Secretary will appoint people who support the public interest. As I said, President Sanders, yes, I bet so. President Trump? Maybe not so much.

So somehow we are going to strive to have the lowest unit costs in the world--that is competing with the air traffic controllers in India.

Now--and this will be a question to Mr. Rinaldi.

In fact, it is so good I hear the Freedom Caucus is opposed to the bill, because they don't like the labor protections.

If air traffic control isn't an inherently Government function, what is?

Completely disrupting the ATC system and splitting up the FAA will probably set back NextGen implementation by quite a few years.

We are creating something that is too big to fail.

This bill has no such provisions.

We have put $53 billion into the facilities and equipment over the last 20 years.