Political Quotes

“let me thank my friend from North Dakota, Senator Dorgan. You never know when you get up on the floor and make a statement about the way you feel--the response from the Senator from Arizona, chairman of the Aviation Subcommittee, is that he agrees with you. I agree with you. So now we have three. So when you start out, maybe you thought you were by yourself, but you are not. One item I would like to add to what we expect from FAA is that we put responsibility on those who are operating FAA to do all these great things, and then we don't give them the wherewithal to do it. Think about that. We demand the safest airline service in the world, but yet we say we're going to play Mickey Mouse with your money. We went 10 months at $19 million a day lost, and now on January 1, we will start losing a similar amount until we wake up and try to fund it. Sure, we have in this bill a study on other ways to finance, but we don't have it yet. That study has to be sent to us for review by the Secretary of Transportation. What do we do between now and then? We are going to hear some folks, ``Where's my money for my airport?'' Well, you didn't pay for it. ``Where is my help on essential air service?'' The Senator from North Dakota made his point. In the managers' amendment that will be agreed to shortly, the amendment of the Senator from North Dakota, as it relates to small airports, essential air service, all those things will be in this bill. He has made a great contribution.…”