Political Quotes

“This legislation will not change everything overnight, but it will expedite the process of building airports, we think, in a more expeditious time period. As the gentleman mentioned, the airports built in the Asian market were built in a short period of time, and Seattle has had 19 years and has not even flown an airplane off the new runway that is going to be built. Mr. Speaker, this bill is needed at this time. Prior to 9-11, the biggest complaint was congestion and delays in our airports. I believe although air traffic is down now, it will return in the near future; and we need these new airports as our population grows. We need these new airports as commerce grows, and this is a way to get these airports built on time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 4481, the Airport Streamlining Approval Process Act of 2002. Last year, airport gridlock dominated the aviation debate. Passengers were bitterly complaining about the intolerable delays they were forced to endure. We examined those issues and found that one of the main reasons for the congestion was the lack of airport capacity.”