ms. norton. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr.rta, captain moak raised the kind of emperor has no clothes on issue, although i want to focus on safety and not funds. um, he in his own way, respectful way, mocked the billion dollars, i guess it is, in the president's budget, um, calling it like a quarter in a meter, and it'll get you, you know, seven minutes. and i think that was fair. i don't know about you, but i think that was fair. and i understand that we're under tremendous pressure, so i'm not asking this question out of criticism. i just think that it was an important point to raise because there's a bill elephant in this room. the elephant is that we're sitting here as if this is going to happen. you can ask are we on track, let me tell you something, we're on track if we're going, um, at the slowest possible pace, and we're on track if we're trying to meet some deadline. so on track tells us nothing. and whether or not we're on track matters to me for one critical reason, and that is the increase in air traffic. captain m