I would encourage folks to vote for en bloc 7, and I yield back the balance of my time.

We must make sure the FAA authorization is not a science experiment because with 2 million passengers in the skies on any given day, we must remember what is at stake if we make changes to our safe air traffic control system.

Make it 60. You pick the three you do not want.

Safety is and must be the FAA's number one priority, certainly is mine, I know it is yours as well.

But we rise to challenges; we do not shrink from them.

I am joined today with my colleagues from Washington State to ask you, at the end of my comments, to ask for a moment of silence because, on October 24, the Marysville, Washington, and Tulalip communities were violently ripped apart by a…

I look forward to working with you and Chairman LoBiondo and all of my colleagues to get a bill done on time, one that improves safety and keeps our aviation system the envy of the world.

In my home State of Washington, about 650 aerospace companies support as many as 209,000 jobs.

Aerospace is the State's largest exporting sector, accounting for over 40 percent of the State's exports in 2011.

U.S. aviation is vital to our economy.

Domestic aviation manufacturing... is one of the major reasons why the aviation industry in this country is such a powerful economic engine.

Concerns about CSB's problem have been bipartisan.