Maria Cantwell

What is the down-side? Because we are at 12 million, and if the upside is another 3.5 million or higher, what is the down-side if we do not act?

I do not think we can emphasize that enough, that the market is outside the United States of America.

Thank you, Madame Chair. Thank you, Chief Tidwell.

I want to close by saying that other countries use these same financial tools. So a lot of my colleagues can see that other countries, for the same reason, when the marketplace does not provide a private sector financial tool to securitize…

I think you should take away from today's hearing that while some progress has been made, we very much look forward to this July 1 report, which is mid-term, I guess, and we are going to get the final in October.

Mr. Rinaldi, how could we empower cities across America to start--even on an empowerment level--to start looking at this and getting ready for this implementation so we do not wait another ten years before we get major cities on this…

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will come to order.

Can't we move faster at getting these Performance Based Navigation systems in place sooner?

A fully implemented NextGen system is also critical for building capacity in our aviation system.

Technology drives best in flat organizations, not hierarchical, so the more hierarchical we come with this, the longer it is going to take us to implement.

I think you heard from my colleague from Florida when you said 20 years to implement, no one wants to hear that.

I guess what I am saying is we want to see more of a partnership with the FAA and industry.

This program has been promised as a way to increase safety, improve efficiency, reduce fuel costs.

Great, so why not move up that deployment more rapidly, because my understanding of what is going to happen is we are going to see them come online and then over the next 4 years, we will see like a little dribble of----

One key step to empowering women around the world is through access to education.

Violence against women is not just a problem in the United States; it's a challenge around the world.

VAWA ensures that violence prevention programs receive strong federal funding, and gives law enforcement powerful tools to fight violence and trafficking.

I'm especially proud of the tribal provisions we included in VAWA, which are critical because nearly 40 percent of American Indian women will endure domestic violence in their lifetime.

Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor for the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which protects American women against violence and human trafficking.

Exports represent a huge economic opportunity to create jobs right here at home.

This is one of the highest priorities of this committee.

Exporting is not for wimps.

As Congress considers the reauthorization of the STEP Program, I would like to add my support to some key recommendations from SIDO.

U.S. exports are an engine of economic growth and job creation.

I think measuring, having some assessment, even if you can just on that portfolio of packages that have been approved on this program, I think would give us some understanding about what the market demand is, so to speak, for SBA loans…