In 2016 I wrote to Secretary Foxx in support of the Tennessee Department of Transportation's application for what was then called a FASTLANE grant.

I have a series of statements from different groups of concern, including the American Association of People with Disabilities and Autism Society, et cetera, Epilepsy Foundation, I would like to enter into the record.

Memphis has one of the Nation's most significant freight corridors, and substantial importance to the national cargo network and the national economy.

It is clear and all of our security people know and have said that that is what the Russians want to do is disrupt democracy and our government.

It is clear to me the American public is on our side in urging your agency to issue standards to keep Americans safe in our skies.

I hope you will do it quickly, because lives could be in the balance.

Even after the dangerous accident involving American Airlines flight 383, even after the NTSB's clear recommendation to review passenger deplaning times, the FAA took no significant action.

This has been the greatest period of safety in civil aviation, I think, in our history.

But I would add that it would help a lot if the person who has the biggest bully pulpit in our country were to take the lead in consistently condemning hate rather than energizing it.

Marijuana is not as dangerous as heroin. Would you agree with that?

I think we have a greater responsibility than anybody else in this country to see to it that African Americans get a chance at the ballot.