Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) on Wednesday said President Obama's repeated calls for higher taxes on corporate executives who use corporate jets is killing the U.S. general aviation industry, as are new and proposed rules that raise taxes and invade the privacy of corporate jet users.

"He demonizes general aviation users," Pompeo said of Obama on the House floor. "He calls them corporate fat cat jet owners at every turn. But it's not impacting the folks who use those as business tools. It's impacting the people who build these airplanes.

"His rhetoric kills sales of American manufactured goods, and with them the jobs that are created when those airplanes are built," he added.

Transportation advocates are wasting no time trying to convince lawmakers not to cut spending on public transit systems.

Your morning transportation speed-read:

A Florida newspaper says House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) is having a rough first year on the job.

A Transportation Security Administration officer in New Jersey charged with stealing from passengers has been sentenced.

Advocates for increasing the gas tax in Maryland are arguing it's 2012 or never.

Auto dealers are opposed to new regulations on the products they sell.

A group of U.S. mayors met Tuesday with congressional leaders and White House officials to promote a jobs plan they’re pushing independently of President Obama’s that includes a “comprehensive, fully funded” transportation bill.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D), who is also president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, said Tuesday that he met with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), members of the debt-reduction supercommittee and White House advisers David Plouffe and Gene Sperling.

The meetings were part of a trip to Washington by Villaraigosa to push for consideration of the “Common-Sense Jobs Agenda” that was announced this month by the Conference of Mayors.

In his standoff with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) over a bill to fund highway and aviation programs last week, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) was never trying to shut down the agencies, a spokesman told The Hill on Tuesday.

Instead, Coburn was trying to stop Reid from tying the funding for the Federal Aviation Administration to road-beautification projects, Coburn spokesman John Hart said.

“I don’t think the [Communication Workers of America] understands [Senator] Coburn’s position,” Hart said in an email to The Hill. “[Senator] Coburn was never threatening to ‘shutdown’ the FAA.  He was objecting to Majority Leader Reid’s decision to hold FAA hostage to the transportation enhancement program. What’s extreme, in our view, is linking funding for squirrel sanctuaries to the FAA bill. The CWA may want to do a little more homework next time.” 

Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) performed CPR and administered defibrillation on a man in cardiac arrest in a North Carolina airport on Tuesday, Roe’s office confirmed.

Roe rushed to an unidentified man’s aid in the Charlotte airport Tuesday morning, performed CPR, and used the emergency medical technicians’ equipment in order to shock the man’s heart, according to Roe’s office. 

Roe was able to restart the man’s heart.

“I bet the guy wasn’t down probably 30 seconds before Phil was taking care of him. They gave him CPR for like 5 or 6 minutes. They pumped his chest pretty good. It was work, it was pretty intimidating to watch,” Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), Roe’s traveling companion, told The Daily Caller.

Mulvaney said he saw the man’s heartbeat flatline.

“The guy was dead. There’s no question,” Mulvaney said. “This guy is alive because of Phil Roe and a couple other very important people at the airport.”

Roe earned his medical degree from the University of Tennessee. He served two years in the U.S. Army Medical Corps,and practiced as an obstetrician before running for office.

This story was updated at 2 p.m.

The regulation has led to intense scrutiny from trade associations and Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

Your morning transportation speed-read:

The Federal Highway Administration has given preliminary approval tolls on Interstate 95 in Virginia.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood toured a light rail in St. Paul, Minn.

Critics of the Transportation Security Administration are using arrests of workers at a Florida airport to argue for reforms at the agency.

The Department of Transportation has given Amtrak a grant for repairs along its Boston-to-Washington, D.C., route.

The union that recently won the right to represent workers at the Transportation Security Administration said Monday that it played a role in protecting the jobs of some of them at the Honolulu International Airport in Hawaii.

The TSA announced Monday that it had fired almost 30 of employees at the airport for improperly screening checked baggage last year, and suspended 15 others.

Responding to an earlier post on The Hill's Transportation Report, the American Federation of Government Employees said on its Twitter page Monday afternoon it "won a reduction in the severity of discipline for several of the officers originally charged."