Political Quotes

“I know there will be an objection after I make my statement, and I regret that. We have worked long and hard to bring this FAA reauthorization bill to the floor. I have worked years on it, along with the occupant of the Chair. We have security in there. We have funding for airports. We have the money to cover letters of intent. All of this is extremely important. And one item in this bill is going to bring it down. I wish it was not in there. I wish we did not have it, but it is there. And I hope that those that object to that portion of it would just give us an up-and-down vote. The House did that. And why we could not have an up-and-down vote--based on the content of the bill, if you are opposed to all of this, all the funding for the airports, all the security, and opposed to all the money going to your airports, opposed to essential air service, all these things, then you have to vote no on the whole bill for this one item.”