On the recordSeptember 21, 2001
Mr. Speaker, safety was considered first priority to this bill, and any reference to the contrary is incorrect. In fact, the $5 billion infusion is in part because the FAA shut down the American airlines, all of them, until such time as new security procedures were put in place, which, in fact, have resulted in the arrest and capture and now the jailing of certain suspects against the United States of America. Secondly, it should be known that sky marshals are already on United States aircraft and additional marshals are already in training. For someone to send the signal to America that we have not paid attention to safety is wrong. For someone to say that executive compensation or management compensation, one must be considered over the other, I ask a simple question to those who object. There will be no compensation to anyone if America's airlines fail and are grounded.
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