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John Davison Rockefeller IV, commonly known as Jay Rockefeller, is a prominent American politician and member of the Democratic Party. Born on June 18, 1937, in New York City, he served as the Governor of West Virginia from 1977 to 1985 and later represented the state in the U.S. Senate from 1985 until his retirement in 2015. During his time in the Senate, Rockefeller was known for his work on healthcare, education, and technology issues, advocating for the expansion of access to healthcare and the improvement of education systems in West Virginia and across the nation.
I want to talk for a few minutes about the importance of the Andean Trade Preference Act and the need to reauthorize it. I remind my colleagues that the Andean Trade Preference Act was first enacted by President George Herbert Walker Bush…
Let me catch up a bit on where we are. The Senate has been working on this national slots issue for close to 1 year or it may be 10 years. I don't know. It has been an awfully long time. But we have been unable to achieve a resolution so…
I appreciate my colleague's concerns about how supplemental carriers have been treated in the FAA's rulemaking process dealing with pilot flight and duty time. As you are aware, modernizing the pilot flight and duty regulations has been…
I rise today with my colleagues, Senators Shaheen, Leahy, Inouye, Stabenow, and Schumer, to reintroduce an important piece of legislation, the Fair Prescription Drug Competition Act. Our legislation eliminates one of the most prominent…
I wish to catch up the membership on the floor and off the floor a little bit about where we are. We are at midweek for a third week of consideration of the FAA reauthorization bill. Last night, Senator Reid filed cloture on this bill. In…
I am proud that virtually every public safety officer in my great state of West Virginia has stood up and recognized how essential this bill really is for strengthening their ability to do their jobs.
I appreciate your time and look forward to working with you on this critical issue.
I am supporting this legislation in a bipartisan way, why I look forward to working with you.
By allocating D Block to public safety and providing sufficient funding, we can finally give the brave men and women of our law enforcement community... the communications resources that they require.
Let me just say that the TSA Administrator has the right to allow collective bargaining for TSA employees through the authority he was provided in the original Aviation and Transportation Security Act passed in 2001. When Congress passed…
the pending Paul amendment will cut the FAA's authorization levels for fiscal year 2011 to 2008 levels, $14.7 billion for the entire agency, representing a near $3 billion cut from the administration's introduced level of approximately…
At the end of the day, my greatest fear is that this debate will linger far too long.
Just last week, Secretary Napolitano said that the terror threat is as high now as it has been since September 11, 2001.
This effort is about saving lives. And to those who say we cannot afford this now, I say we can afford in no way not to do it.
I thank you for allowing me to testify and yield back the balance of my time.
The bottom line is that there are two fundamental approaches that can provide the same functional product to the police officer, fire fighter, or EMT on the street.
We need to implement a new plan for solving our nation's public safety interoperable communications problem.
I am for passing the bill and leaving slots for conference or whatever, unless we can work something out. Nobody wants to agree. Everybody thinks they have the leverage. Maybe they do, maybe they do not. But in the meantime, this bill…
If one listens to the conversation on the floor and around in the hallways, everything has to do with slots--how many flights in and out of National Airport, what are we going to do about the west coast, Seattle, and all the rest of them…
it is with great pride that I come to the floor today to discuss legislation that I am introducing to name the Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Martinsburg, WV, in honor of a dear friend, W. Craig Broadwater. Judge…
I want to reiterate something the leader has said and what the Senator from New Mexico said; that is, the vast importance of this bill. I have said many times on this floor there are 11 million people who work for the aviation industry…
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