James Oberstar: “I offer my colleagues an opportunity to designate an appropriate memorial to President Ronald Reagan without a single…”

“I offer my colleagues an opportunity to designate an appropriate memorial to President Ronald Reagan without a single dissenting vote. As was indicated by the previous vote, there is not complete bipartisan support. There are many on the other side of the aisle who voted crossing their fingers with a little check in their throat. This is not the right way to go about designating an appropriate memorial to the memory of Ronald Reagan. The motion to recommit that I have offered has precedent. The precedent for the motion I offer is that offered by no less than the Senate Minority Leader in 1990, almost 8 years to the week, Senator Dole, who offered a joint resolution to urge the Washington Metropolitan Airports Authority to use its existing authority to change the name of Washington-Dulles International Airport to Eisenhower International Airport.”