Jeff Flake: “We simply cannot deal with the tremendous issues that we have to deal with in terms of tax relief, regulatory reform and…”

“We simply cannot deal with the tremendous issues that we have to deal with in terms of tax relief, regulatory reform and to decide, as the gentleman from Missouri appropriately put it, what obligations the airlines actually have and what obligations should we, as general taxpayers or society, bear in terms of security costs; but we cannot have those discussions on appropriations measures. We cannot wait in between bailouts every year or so to decide how much each airline gets to enact a formula. That is why we need to enter into these discussions in between, when the crisis is not right at hand; and with that understanding, I will agree to withdraw the amendment.”