I think we ought to make it absolutely plain, at least unless my memory is totally gone, that smoking on airplanes was legislation that came through the Public Works Committee. It was not done on an appropriation bill. We may have had it as an amendment, but I know it came through Public Works.
Clarifying the legislative history of smoking regulations on airplanes.
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