I think probably what the gentleman and myself have been talking about is a plan that reopens that airport at least to charter aircraft who would undergo the same security rigmarole that commercial airliners do today: Background check of the crew and passengers, background check of the owner of the plane, searching passengers' baggage as we do commercial passengers, the same rigmarole that we go on through on commercial passengers today on commercial craft. Is that the gentleman's understanding?
Hal Rogers: “I think probably what the gentleman and myself have been talking about is a plan that reopens that airport at least to…”
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