NBAA also supports S. 1956, The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme Prohibition Act Of 2011.

This is a violation of international law?

Unfair and arbitrary.

It is time to intensify and expand our government's response, protect all U.S. aviation operators and their employees.

Any system that includes international and other non-EU airspace must be addressed through the International Civil Aviation Organization, or ICAO.

I would like to see us pass this bipartisan legislation that addresses the EU's unilateral imposition of ETS in order to protect the U.S. aviation industry.

We urge Congress to explore every available option to support the administration's action to exclude U.S. airlines from this harmful and misguided scheme.

It has been 6 months since you and Secretary Clinton sent a letter to the EU urging them to cease and desist on ETS.

Senator Thune's bill directs the Secretary to hold the airlines harmless, but doesn't give a path forward for how to do that.

Many other countries, including Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, and Russia have voiced their opposition to the EU scheme.

I believe that ETS is completely separate from the user fees that countries might apply on passengers.

It is unfair. It is discriminatory. It singles out a great American industry for discriminatory treatment.

I think that's going to be the only way, Madam Chair, that we're going to be able to force what should have happened in the first place to happen, and that is to go to ICAO and get this resolved.

I think it's going to be perceived as a tax.

This does appear to an American citizen, an American traveler, as, one, a violation of international law, a violation of American sovereignty, and an illegal tax.

Have you done the same sort of analysis that--with the indulgence of the chair--that Ms. Young was talking about the commercial airlines having done?

That sort of contradicts, I think, Ms. Young's testimony.

Should U.S. airlines and U.S. consumers be paying a tax to European coffers on an extraterritorial scheme?