Political Quotes

“Let us see something else that has been brought up here. Competition. The gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) talked about the competition. We are going to have more gates at new modernized O'Hare Airport. In the agreement, Delta Airlines, Northwest Airlines, a number of airlines that now utilize O'Hare but feel that they are restricted because of the size of O'Hare will have a much greater opportunity to get gates, to get landing slots so that there will be significantly more competition at O'Hare. Another point I would like to bring up is that this is really a very bipartisan piece of legislation. Not only do we have support from the Republican side and the Democratic side, but beyond this Chamber, five secretaries of Transportation enthusiastically support this legislation, and these are appointees both on the Democratic side and from the Republican side. Two of them that I could name right here, Secretary Slater, Secretary Skinner. People support this not only because it is necessary to break the gridlock at O'Hare for benefit of the American aviation flying public, but it will also create 195,000 jobs, and those jobs are not going to just go to people on the northwest side of the city of Chicago. They are going to go to people within the city of Chicago, within Cook County, within the counties that surround Cook County. This is job creation.”