Thomas E. Petri: “I am disappointed, myself, that several issues unrelated to important safety and modernization provisions in the…”

That is pathetic, and we have to do something about it.

There are a lot of stories we could tell about the Jim Oberstar, and I think it is probably not fully appropriate to do that at this time but just to say that he was a self- made person, he had great intellectual abilities, and he used…

I applaud the administration and I applaud the other members of this committee who say, let's take a look at some other sources of revenue, including general revenues.

I thank my colleague. Mr. Speaker, I would like to express my support for the rule and the underlying bill, H.R. 5. I am in frequent contact with educators in my district in Wisconsin. One of the concerns I hear the most is that Federal…