Protecting consumers from identity theft, fraud, and financial harm is certainly a goal that all of us on this committee share.
private companies like Target hold vastly larger amounts of sensitive information about us than the government could ever think of doing.
the best thing that we can probably do in terms of improving the overall status and conditions for middle-class Americans in this country is...
I think we have two kind of contrasting views about how to improve the plight of middle-class Americans in this country.
The United States is a leader in aerospace design and manufacturing.
The industry continues to face a number of challenges.
Congress gave the DOT the authority to protect our air carriers and the traveling public from what is unilateral taxation, in effect.
The railroads have run into a lot of obstacles and their efforts to meet this 2015 PTC deadline.
I worry that the current statutory deadline of December 2015 is unrealistic for most passenger and freight railroads.
The railroads are so important in our part of the country.
And, you know, one way we could get fewer trains in North Dakota is to horizontally drill from South Dakota.