peter defazio, the ranking member on the transportation and infrastructure committee, which successfully made a six-year funding bill paid thank you for your time. rep. defazio: thank you. ms. swain: let me turn to both of you. how successful is this bill going to be? it has to have reconciliation, and then the president has to approve. what does it stand? ms. caygle: well, likely the two bills are not so far away and policy. when they get the conference, if they get the congress -- conference, they won't have that much to work out. you have people on both sides who have said we don't want to vote on this issue in 2016. they have voted on so many short-term extensions since 2009, they'll -- they don't want to make their members to get -- go through it. what happened, the summit has a bunch of offsets -- senate has a bunch of offsets and they could adopt them for their bill. but both sides want to get something done their share. -- done this year. if you bring up the gas tax, it is very thorny. but the offsets the senate came up with, i think both sides are in a let's swallow this. ms. sw

swain: our guest on "newsmakers" this week is congressman peter defazio.ee this week successfully passed out a bipartisan piece of legislation, a six-year highway funding bill. he is here to tell us more about it. let me introduce our to reporters. heather caygle covers transportation for "politico," and billy house is with "bloomberg." ms. caygle: yesterday you guys did something you haven't done in a long time, and that is passed a long-term bipartisan highway and transit bill, but no one has said how is it going to be funded yet. where do you go from here? rep. defazio: well, that is not the jurisdiction of our committee, and that is something the republican leadership is

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. >> our last speaker is representative peter defazio. >> approximately 25 hours after this tragedy, this is the day for us to mourn those who died and to give us much as we can. our hearts and ou prayr prayers family and friends and pray for those still in the hospital. then for this community, for the college, for the town, for the townspeople. today is a day of mourning. we'll go through grief. we'll have memories. then there will be a time we have the facts from the investigation that's ongoing that we may find discreet ways to deal with problems such as this in the future. unfortunately this is not the first time that i've spoken at a news conference like this. first one took place two miles from my home. in the case of thurston it was like i saw the press conference earlier today. tremendous demand for information which isn't readily available, for solution, which we can't even begin to think of until we know all the facts. the impatience. this is not a time to be impatient. it's a time to come together in solidarity and give what solace we can to those that have lost so much.

our guest on "newsmakers" this week is congressman peter defazio. committee this week successfully passed out a bipartisan piece of legislation, a six-year highway funding bill. he is here to tell us more about it. let me introduce our to reporters. heather caygle covers transportation for "politico," and billy house is with "bloomberg." ms. caygle: yesterday you guys di

roseburg, oregon, is located in the fourth congressional district represented by representative peter defazio. he tweets this, my thoughts and prayers are with the victims of today's tragic shooting in roseburg. >>> join us tonight for remarks by massachusetts senator elizabeth warren and house republican conference chair congresswoman kathy mcmorris rogers. it's from the washington ideas forum, a gathering of national thought leaders hosted by the aspen institute. you can watch their remarks tonight 8:00 p.m. eastern on oue companion network c-span. >>> the supreme court is scheduled to begin its new term on monday. earlier this year, a poll was conducted for c-span on the seer supreme court. you can see here from the poll, some of the decisions are more familiar than others to americans. roe versus wade. 67% of americans familiar with that. 46% with brown versus board of education.an here to talk more about this is executive producer mark farkus. tell us a little bit more about this series. why is c-span doing it? >> all of our history series really need to lend currency to our current prog

so our last speaker today is representative peter defazio. here,efazio: approximately 25 hours after this tragedy, this is a day for died andrn those who two give as much as we can, our hearts and our prayers, to their family and their friends. and to pray for those who are still in the hospital, and for this community -- for the college, for the town, for the of mpeople, today is a day ourning. we will go through grief. we will have memorials. and then we will get to a time where we have all the facts from the investigation, which is ongoing, that we may find deal withays to problems such as this in the future. unfortunately, this is not the first time i have spoken at a .ews conference like this the first 1 took place two miles from my home. there is a tremendous demand for information, which is not yet readily available, for solutions, which we cannot even begin to think of until we know all the facts, and the impatience. this is not a time to be impatient. it is a time first to come together in solidarity and to give what solace we can fo

our last speaker is representative peter defazio. >> approximately 25 hours after this tragedy, this is a day for us to mourn, those who died, and to give us much as we can our hearts and prayers to their family and friends and to pray for those in the hospital, and in the community, for the college, the town and the townspeople. today is that day of mourning. we will go through grief, we will have memorials and then where will come a time when we will have all the facts from the investigation which is ongoing, the we may find discreet ways to deal with problems such as this in the future. unfortunately this is not the first time i have spoken at a news conference like this. thurston took place two miles from my home. in the case of first and it was like i saw the press conference earlier today, tremendous demand for information which isn't yet readily available, for solutions which we can't even begin to think of until we know all the facts and the in patience. this is not a time to be impatient visit is a time first to come together in solidarity and to give what solace weekend to

i'd like to really thank rick larsen for the close working relationship and bill schuster and peter defazio on this very important issue we spent a lot of time with. chairman schuster is not here yet. mr. defazio, some opening remarks? >> thank you, mr. chairman, appreciate the opportunity and appreciate the fact of you convening the committee on this important topic today. yes, there is tremendous potential and commercial application of drone technology. but first and foremost we ask to establish rules that ensure the integrity and safety of our aviation system today. we have seen instances of -- mentioned by the ranking member earlier of these toy drones in critical airspace. at this point, we don't really know what happens when you suck a quad copter into a jet engine and at my request the faa is moving forward with an evaluation. we did after an investigation in 2009 for -- 1994 pittsburgh possible bird strike they calculate add four-pound bird hits an airplane moving at 260 miles an hour, generates a force equal to 14 tons. well, you have some of these toys up there in the air that wei

barry sanders, our beloved peter defazio. but policy which makes sense to , they are out of touch. do not know with the needs and the concerns of the regular individual are. host: this is marjorie in washington dc. caller: hello. i apologize, i'm going to have to let you go. you have 15 seconds. axeser: property tas assessments have no control. ont: when you get through washington journal, turned out a television, because you will hear everything three telephone and you will not have any delay. pentagon briefing begins now. general breedlove: good morning. he thank you again for the opportunity to provide you with an update on the things that are keeping us busy and u.s. european command. my last visit with you was back in april. i'm confident we will have some updates. on many lines ever since that time. one intervening conference with you scheduled, which was canceled for some tough things happening downrange. i will begin with a brief opening statement and that i will answer questions. since i was last year, a lot has transpired across the yukon theater of operations. european s

roseburg, in the fourth district, represented by congressman peter defazio and tweeted a message, my thoughts and prayers are with the victims and facebook page said he plans to work with his colleagues in congress to find ways to prevent tragedies. another tweet from senator wyden. we are prying for them. the rrific news from umpqua college. my hearts and prayers are with them. 10 people reported dead in the shootings in roseburg oregon. we will turn events from the washington ideas forum which started yesterday. we will hear from massachusetts democratic senator on the importance of financial reform. and then house republican conference chair on the house res. ig nation of john boehner, both here on c-span. >> the c-span networks feature politics, nonfiction books and american history. saturday morning at 10:00 eastern on c-span, liquid water on mars, the committee talked to the experts and the possibility of life in space. and sunday evening at 6:30, policy makers, business leaders and media permits discuss the issues driving the conversation. former massachusetts governor mitt ro

defazio: ok. thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. mr. lobiondo: thank you, peter. mr. mica. mr. mica: thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you for holding this hearing. mr. whitaker, what's today's date? mr. whitaker: sir, it's the 7th of october. mr. mica: what year? mr. whitaker: 2015. and the legislation -- mr. mica: and the legislation that we passed in 2012, the f.a.a. modernization reform t, had a directive to f.a.a. and what deadline did it set that u to finish the work was assigned in the law? drones? mr. whitaker: september, 2015, sir. mr. mica: so we are behind schedule, obviously. if you review the record, when we passed this in 2012 -- and i believe that was february, was it, staff? by next year, 2013, you had completed the plan that's also required under the law which is a good step. you didn't propose the rule until january 20th of this year, right? mr. whitaker: that's correct, sir. mr. mica: and you had -- and the rule came out in february. so you've had february, march, april, may, june, july, august, september. we're just into october. so you had eight months to finalize that rule, a