John Ensign: “But what we're trying to do here is something that, first of all, can make airlines more competitive in the marketplace.”

Small business is the engine that drives the economy.

We need to get control of these entitlements for today.

We need to design better systems.

The House bill needs to be the floor for what we accomplish out of this process. The House bill isn't nearly enough, and we cannot allow this process to capture a modest improvement in the name of compromise by watering it down to a…