John Mica: “I can say that I have been in the Congress for 11 years. And I was in the minority, and I saw how things operated in an…”

“I can say that I have been in the Congress for 11 years. And I was in the minority, and I saw how things operated in an oppressed fashion, being part of the minority I said that would never happen when I was given the opportunity to be in a leadership position. So I conducted more hearings on the reauthorization of AIR-21, FAA reauthorization, than we did on AIR-21's original hearings. And I have a list of all of the hearings that we conducted. I went into the home district of the ranking member and conducted a hearing. I can tell you with every single issue in this piece of legislation, the minority was consulted. The chairman of the committee, the gentleman from Alaska (Mr. Young), just got up and told you that much of this legislation, in fact, is the work product of the minority. Opportunities I could not have dreamed of when I was in the minority. So to say that somehow this has been unfairly conducted, or some opportunity not given, is not correct. It is not factual.”