1, the chair declares the house when members return, well have live coverage here on cspan. This morning on capitol hill, Michael Whitaker testified for his nomination to head the federal aviation administration. Hes appearing this morning ahead of the commerce, science and transportation committee. Well take you live there now on cspan. Sen. Cantwell each day they help keep americans moving safely. 25,000 u. S. Airline flights carrying 2. 5 million passengers across the country and around the world. Today, you will come before the committee with more than 30 years of diverse experience in aviation, including executive leadership in the private sector and three years serving as f. A. A. Deputy administrator. He led the f. A. A. s modernization of the National Air Space system known shorthand as nextgen, and i hope he will be able to illuminate today the progress that weve made, important milestones that weve achieved and what we need to do to get it finally implemented. Mr. Whitaker wi
After april 15. We didnt do any of them. We only considered one of the 12 bills on the floor, and that one was shut down because the First Amendment the majority leader didnt like. So he pulled it off of the floor, he never brought it up again, nor did he bring up any other spending bills. Is it any wonder that in january, 2009, the total federal debt stood at 10. 6 trillion and now its over 17 trillion . We dont budget, we dont appropriate. We just deal make. Its never risen so high so fast in our countrys history. Just like keeping legislation to one topic per bill, we should look at each spending bill individually. The committee should be able to look closely at each branch, each agency. Thats how it used to work before the power shift, but we can make some changes now to encourage more spending scrutiny. We could switch to a biennial appropriations process. That means once every two years for each agency. I have introduced s. 625, the biennial appropriations act, and i am also cosp
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Although the polling station is open to the whole community, the tribal council is hosting the early voting site, mainly as a convenience for its 400 employees and its tribal members.