House Proceeding on Mar 24th, 2010 :: 0:50:55 to 0:53:00
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Thomas E. Petri: the air traffic control system. madam speaker, this legiation before us today is critically important to the f.a.a.. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized. >> madam speaker, in may of last year the house passed h.r.

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Speech By: Thomas E. Petri

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Thomas E. Petri: 915, the f.a.a. re-authorization act of 2009. earlier this week the senate passed its own f.a.a. re-authorization bill and therefore the two chambers will soon begin negotiations to reconcile the bills. however that process will take some time. given that the current f.a.a. extension expires at the end of this month, we need to again

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Thomas E. Petri: extend the f.a.a.'s taxes and authorities to allow time to get a final conference f.a.a. bill. the house considered and passed an f.a.a. extsion bill just last week, we are again considering an f.a.a. extension in order to address a minor technical matter in the earlier bill that would have impacted the f.a.a.'s ability to fund airport projects during the

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Thomas E. Petri: next three months. therefore this bill, h.r. 4915, makes the technical correction and also extends the taxes programs and funding of the f.a.a. to july 3 of this year. this bill will ensure that our national airspace system continues to operate andhat the f.a.a. continues funding important airport projects

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Thomas E. Petri: while the congress reconciles the two re-authorization bills. like the bill considered last week, the bill before us also includes a provision that will change the way funding is distributed for the projects of national and regional significance program, and the national cor infrastructure program and the surface transportation extension that was signed into law last week.

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Thomas E. Petri: currently, 56% of the funds for those two programs are directed to just four states, and 22 states will receive no funding at all. this fix ensures that the funding for those two programs is distributed to all states through the existing federal-aid highway formula.