07/21/2009
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"I am a new cochair of something called the Quiet Skies Caucus."
"It is very important to hear, because then we will be able to blame just NextGen or flight patterns, rather than the noise from the airplanes themselves."
"This is New York you are talking about. If they know the airplane is there, they will complain about the noise."
"The noise has become such a pervasive issue that some of us in the Congress have formed a bipartisan coalition called Quiet Skies."