Those dollars are committed to acquisition of air traffic control technologies, as the chairman well knows. The operations account is to pay for the air traffic controllers and for the professional systems repair personnel, and were not intended to pay for sky marshals.
Discussing budget allocations for air traffic control during a congressional debate.
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