It is real. It is based in history.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. To Mr. Rogoff, you mentioned in your testimony $4 billion funding level as soon as July for the Highway Account...

I mean is the administration looking at--will they consider a realistic backup plan like mine, which I believe could work, and is, you know, based in history.

the administration has put forward a proposal with illusory corporate tax reform, which won't happen this year.

I know, but I put it on the table now for 4 years.

So you are going to go up to that point?

Detention time is really impactful on drivers, on driver safety, and, frankly, wastes almost $4 billion in industry efficiency.

Look. The problem is we could make the existing cars safer. We are not requiring that.

What is the earliest date at which you could approve a new standard, since NTSB is very specific about what they want to see in that standard.

In 1991 NTSB identified the 111 car as inadequate. Then, after 20 years of inaction by regulators, first the Secretary's office and later by PHMSA, AAR, out of frustration, adopted their own standard.

We could have some certainty. Right now, there is so much uncertainty, people are not going to make the investments in safer cars.

There is an extraordinary threat to the U.S. aviation industry.

I am just puzzled that it would take so long, and that we would allow foreign repair stations, where their workers do not meet our standards, to do critical maintenance work on aircraft.

I have described the FAA as the only agency of Government worse at procurement than the Pentagon.

I will pay an extra 2 bucks for a ticket to know I will get there alive.

I view the provision in the draft discussion bill as saying that whenever you issue a fishery management rule, which is a critical part for some species recovery, that that has to be done in the Magnuson Act.

ESA provisions in the draft are problematic to us.

So you are basically putting the blame back on the Councils for slow implementation.

I ask unanimous consent that the previously mentioned Mr. Tierney be allowed to sit on the dais for today's hearing.

We need to require that forage fish be managed, because they are so important in marine ecosystems.

I recently, just this week, met with some trawlers from Oregon, Washington, and we were discussing the need that Mr. Grader mentioned to move beyond observers, get to electronic monitoring, and I am frustrated that we are not moving more…

I have been focused a lot more on transportation over the last few years when I took over ranking.

There is a provision in the bill that says fisheries data... could not be used when we are having discussions of... wind farms off Oregon and elsewhere.

Without fish, there is no fishing industry.

The fishermen who are directly impacted have requested flexibility.