Lateefah Simon: “This is the labor-management issue that was added on. And just so there is no misunderstanding, Mr. President, I will…”

“This is the labor-management issue that was added on. And just so there is no misunderstanding, Mr. President, I will introduce for myself and Senator Kennedy the FAA bill with this provision stripped. I am just going to leave it at the desk. I am not asking unanimous consent to move it ahead. Clearly, this ought to pass, but we should not at the last minute with using the cover of FAA inject ourselves into a labor-management issue that has been rejected by Congress before, and all of a sudden in the last minute we are trying to get it passed. That is not the way to do things. We ought to have hearings. If Congress wants to get in the middle of this labor-management fight, let us do it after hearings; let us do it very, very carefully.”