The gentleman used my name. The difference is this is out of a trust fund. This is contract authority. There can be no deficit spending. That is the distinction here, and that is why this amendment should be overwhelmingly defeated.
Debating an amendment related to contract authority and trust fund spending.
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If we are spending 25 to 28 times more in CapX and we are getting very little for it, that is a real problem.
We are going to spend every penny from that Highway Trust Fund, because the users paid it and they deserve that back.
I believe that they fundamentally agree with me that the FAA is broken, and that--although it is a very, very safe system, the efficiency, the innovation, the modernization for decades has fallen behind.
The United States is a world leader in aviation. We are also the world leader in innovation, and one of the sectors that I want to see thrive is the use of unmanned aerial systems.
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