Nick Rahall: “This legislation appears to me to erect more roadblocks to energy job creation and production.”

I would urge my colleagues to ensure that labor remains engaged in the conversation, and that aviation programs receive robust, stable funding and to keep air traffic control in the realm of good Government, where it belongs.

This committee is where the future of this country is at, in my opinion.

We need a partnership, a co-partnership here, if you will, with GSA and OMB to work through this issue.

I will miss working with you and all of my esteem colleagues from both sides of the aisle, but I know that with your leadership, and your bipartisanship, and your transparent manner of operating this committee, this Nation's future is in…