I don't mean--well, I guess I do mean to diminish the information that has been given to us, because it is not--it is not right, it doesn't nearly meet the laugh test, in my judgment.

Did Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority weigh in on those issues, saying that, 'Gosh, if that happens, we may have a million more people coming through, we may have hour wait times at the portals for security, we may not have garage…

So whatever operations you're managing, you're not going to have one hour wait times, I assume, at National.

I'm telling you, it doesn't add up, it doesn't add up a bit to me.

There is nothing that has been discussed today that will ever benefit Bismarck, North Dakota.

I don't know if it'll be 2013 or 2014 when we come out of it. I don't know, but we're going to come out of it.

Let me make a point, that in 2007 when GAO said there was additional capacity at National, there was 1.1 million more passengers flying out of National.

I'm pleased to hear that, and you wouldn't even exist, I might say, if it hadn't been for me.

You are stopping this bill from passing, and you can't feel very good about that.

your position at this table is to limit people's choices, isn't that the case?

I'm proud to say that the FAA bill actually passed out of this committee and then through the Congress, 93 to nothing, not a single dissenting vote.

Time doesn't stand still. Time marches on.

So, is it OK if Congress changes the rules? Do we have your OK?

It just seems to me that you're making a case that on its face is preposterous.

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Mr. President, this country, as all of us know, faces very significant challenges these days. We have roughly 20 million people who woke up in America today without a job, who probably are out today looking for work and haven't found it…

I understand the value of having a financially successful industry. I think that's very important.

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