Bill Shuster: “I care very much about rural America. I am from rural America.”

The only person that can raise taxes is the United States Congress. So that is patently false.

Today is the time to act. Now is the time to act, which is why this is so important.

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 has the safest aviation system in the world. That can never be taken for granted.