Not having another big regulatory overreach is maybe a good thing.

I think my view is it is obsolete now, and I am 180 degrees different from where I was...

we need legitimate news organizations to be able to function and have a voice...

I think it is very clear that we live in a different world on this score, and there are many, particularly our brothers and sisters in the newspaper industry, and the journalism, the solid journalism, that they do is under assault and real threat.

I was a strong proponent of that cross-ownership ban because there were two markets, one with which I was very familiar, Dallas, Texas, but also Atlanta, Georgia, where there was such a lock on the media outlets with the only newspaper in town plus the major television station being owned by the same companies in a grandfather that superseded the ban.

The aviation industry is a critical engine for job creation in the United States, supporting over ten million jobs.

Our aviation manufacturers contributed a $75 billion net positive impact on our worldwide trade balance.

I want to thank Chairman Bingaman and Ranking Member Murkowski of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee for holding today's hearing in the Subcommittee on National Parks to consider lands bills that impact Texas.

Well, let me start with the Office of Special Counsel and also the relatively large number, according to the Special Counsel, of whistleblowers at the FAA.

We are paying a heavy price for the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. And the reason that we are paying hundreds of millions of dollars--and it will be in the billions before we are finished--is because we were not able to fund adequately to close the gap for a commercial crew vehicle following on to the shuttle retirement.

I just hope that there will no longer be budget proposals from the President, whoever that will be next year, that will appear to cut back on the future and fund the present.