All the comments that Senator Kerry said are important.

I do. I think they have the capacity, at least to begin the discussion.

I appreciate those comments.

They need to get this discussion moving, and we'll see where it takes us.

I think your advocacy on NextGen and I know the industry's advocacy on NextGen--and several of us on here fought hard to make sure that that was speeded up.

They need to get the discussion going.

It just seems unfair, it's unilateral.

I do. I think on this one they're probably going to need other resources, other smart people.

we're all for reducing emissions, but let's make it a global, fair system.

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Which means more people traveling, less emissions. That's good from both ends, the industry standpoint, but also from the health of our environment.

that to me seems possibly one way to address the objections that the DOJ may have to Senator Murkowski's bill

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We need to stand up and not comply with this.

It's good to see a little indignance here about a country arbitrarily slapping a tax on us and us trying to protect our own sovereign ability to make decisions.

It'll no longer be in our hands to decide; it'll be arbitrated and it will be decided by the Secretary-General of the United Nations.