Everything that the President talks about--and that is, you know, carbon release and wasted time and damage to the economy and frustrated people and people not having reason to have confidence in their government, et cetera--all comes together in not having NextGen, NowGen, whatever you want to call it.
Rockefeller links the lack of NextGen to broader economic and environmental issues.
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Just as a follow-up to the question of funding which was addressed, CBO actually has come out with an estimate on what all of this would cost. It is not $20 billion; it is in the area of zero up to $10 billion over that period of 4 years.
This process of asking tough questions is in fact called 'oversight.' It's one of the most important jobs Congressional committees have, maybe the most important.
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