rahall: thank you. i rise in support of the manager's amendment, the chairman has adequately explained it and i fully concur and urge its adoption. the speaker pro tempore: does the gentleman reserve? the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from florida. mr. mica: with that i conclude and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is on the amendment by the gentleman from florida, mr. mica. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: madam speaker, on that i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays the gentleman may proceed. mr. polis: many members of the body use this as an example of wasteful spending. mr. neugebauer stated while some fund worthy projects, there are some that are wasteful uses of taxpayer money. mr. pence said all spending

rahall. mr. rahall: it's clear the other body would not accept this amendment if the bill goes with this in it, the president of the united states would not accept this amendment, this bill with the current language, he's already said veto it so i guess the proponents of this particular provision are wanting to continue to pass extension after extension, threatening airport improvement, threatening to halt airport construction and threatening to shut down our goth. this is not about unions, it's about fairness and what's right for the american worker. that's all we're talking about in this particular amendment. i would yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from california, mr. miller. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for 45 seconds. mr. miller: i rise in strong support of this amendment. this amendment really restores democracy to the american workplace and it restores the american principles of majority vote and majority rule. the decision by the national mediation board to begin r

rahall: mr. costello has been in the trenches, on the runways and in the towers of this legislation for many years. he's been with the takeoffs and the landings of so many extensions and i now yield him sufficient time as he may consume. the chair: the gentleman from illinois is recognized for as much time as he may consume. mr. costello: thank you, madam chair, and i thank the ranking member for yielding to me and his kind remarks. all of us agree we need a long-term f.a.a. re-authorization act. the f.a.a. and the aviation community needs to -- needs stability and direction that a multiyear authorization bill will provide. however, it's not this bill. it is important for members to know that h.r. 658 is a different f.a.a. re-authorization bill from the bipartisan legislation that my colleagues and i worked together on and that passed the house three times in the 110th and 111th congresses. that legislation would have created jobs, improved aviation safety and provided the f.a.a. with the resourc

rahall and mr. costello who we worked very closely with. i serve as the ranking member on the transportation and security committee and i can't imagine a more perfect fit on the question of safety and security for our traveling public. i thank the chairman of the full committee and others associated with this legislation. however disappointed i am and having to come to the floor and raise questions about our next step. and i am particularly devastated about the cuts in the f.a.a.'s next generation air traffic system, the nextgen. whenever you think of air traffic controllers i want you to think of first responders as i'll discuss an amendment regarding the issue of ensuring the kind of staffing needs necessary to engage in security. farther, since i have the largest airports in the country, bush intercontinental airport, which we were proud to name, i'm disappointed that the

what i did with mine, i have never been to rahall parikh -- to rehab. i am sorry that there were not for peoplee that i knew for them to go to. i tell them all the time. what i did with mine, i have never been to rehab or psychotherapy or doctor. i went to church and i was sprayed for. -- prayed for. i have always had a great relationship with god. what i did is i turned it over. i get it out. i gave it to god. when you do that, i do not care what your affliction is. food, sex, drugs, whatever it is. if you really want to get rid of it, you cannot go to god and give him something -- if i could have gone to my family, there are people who love you enough to say, give it to me for a couple of weeks because it is killing you. i will take it on but there is nothing like that. they cannot do that. you cannot go to god the with nothing that he will not accept. he will not say last thursday i had an opening. do you know what i mean? tavis: you are preaching. if you are willing to do that, because god is not a dictator. if you are willing to do that, he will no

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joining me now to answer these questions as congressman charles rangle from new york congressman rahall welcome back to the bridge thank you sir you are you yourself are a doubt decorated war hero but you've been there you've done that you have an understanding a war that that i think many of this generation in particular of americans lack how worried are you that this in gauge with libya could become the next iraq or vietnam or pick your metaphor. this is country on my mind because you may know it's mostly people do know that when i went to korea the president at night they cleared war against career in that united nation of a geisha is something that has been very difficult for me to explain but you know when you get to the bottom line and someone is involved in some a mission like this as they have for eight years been involved in the middle east and you go to the fields and the parents or the relatives kids come and say you know was my dad a hero tell them something nice about my dad and they said that i say that because they have no clue as to why they were there what were they doi

rahall. and, mr. mica has begun the process of reauthorization by doing listening sessions around the country in some field hearings which is where the focus has been so there has been a lot of travel particularly to our new members districts, new committee members districts, to learn about the transportation issues from their local side and i think that is the beginning of a process of the authorization. but we are not really in the same spot necessarily we were in the last congress in terms of developing a bill at this point. i am able to talk more about kind of where we have been with the past bill in the last congress and kind of where we are going. because it is really going to be more i think outgrowth of this listening to her and the republican majority kind of laying the frame for how we are going to proceed. there are three critical issues that we included in the authorization proposal that the committee move forward on a bipartisan basis in 2009. consolidation and termination of programs, tr

i want to thank chairman mica and rahall for their leadership as well as chairman lucas and ranking member petter son of the agriculture committee. i urge all members to support h.r. 872 and i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. bishop: mr. speaker, in light of the fact that mr. baca yielded back the balance of his time to me, can you tell me how much time is left on this side? the speaker pro tempore: 15 minutes remaining. mr. bishop: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from oregon, mr. defazio. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon is recognized. mr. defazio: we are here pretending to do something about a real problem. we are amending the wrong statute at the wrong time under the guise that this is a crisis and bringing up a bill that will never see the light of day in the senate. so what could we do? we could work with the environmental protection agency and i have written to the environmental protection agency and i would encourage others who recently got an extension until octobe