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James A. Leach: “I want to thank him for bringing this amendment. It is a very thoughtful amendment. It is a very small amendment. On the…”

On the recordJune 11, 2003
I want to thank him for bringing this amendment. It is a very thoughtful amendment. It is a very small amendment. On the other hand, it relates to few airports in the country, and it relates to techniques to bring rationale indeed to how one devises standards. It happens to affect one airport in my district in the town of Ottumwa; and Ottumwa is a wonderful, small American community, and there are those of us that truly love this community and its airport which can be knocked out of service with great ease. In fact, it largely is today, based upon certain definitional issues. This helps to address those definitional issues. It helps to bring rationality to government programming, and it helps people in a very real way, and so I want to thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts) for his thoughtful leadership, and I would hope the committee would sympathetically concur in the gentleman's amendment.
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James A. Leach
Iowa
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Discussing an amendment related to airport standards affecting Ottumwa, Iowa.

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