Steve Cohen: “Indeed, the issues that Mr. Courtney brought forward in his 1 minute today were alarming to me because my hometown of…”

“Indeed, the issues that Mr. Courtney brought forward in his 1 minute today were alarming to me because my hometown of Memphis depends upon transportation. That's what makes it America's distribution center, the roads, the rivers, the runways, and the rails. And if we don't have moneys to go into helping our airports--where Federal Express is located in my district, and in your district, Mr. Yarmuth, UPS--because that's how we move products all over the world. From those hubs, we move commerce. And that is why it's so important that we have an FAA Reauthorization Act passed, a lot of which would be expenses to modernize the structure and the transportation bills that Mr. Oberstar... tried to get passed last year to both stimulate the economy in the short run and in the long run, as Mr. Courtney said, with that multiplier effect by creating jobs. It's roads that take goods to market, that move commerce, that move raw materials. And I was hoping and do hope that we will have bipartisan efforts to have transportation, FAA reauthorization bills pass that will move this economy forward.”