Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, safe travel in the future depends on the FAA's ability to predict long-term weather patterns, and that requires us to study the effects of climate change. That is what we need to do now. We need to do it to protect ourselves, our wives, our husbands, our children, our grandparents. We don't want any of our loved ones to die. Let's do the studying that we need in order to mitigate the effects of our previous ignoring of climate change as a phenomenon. Let's study it and come to grips with it and make things safer for the traveling public as we proceed forward. That is what we are doing under this FAA reauthorization bill. Mr. Chair, this amendment hurts that process. For that reason, I oppose it and ask my colleagues to do the same. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Ogles). The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes appeared to have it.”