“anti-Semitic incidents in the country are up 70%.”
“We are making sure that working people will not be priced out of the game that they helped to create.”
“It extends to making it possible for every New Yorker to take part in the things that make us human.”
“I've got religious leaders constantly calling me and saying, 'I'm scared. My parishioners are scared.'”

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On the recordMarch 25, 2010
I yield myself 1 minute to respond to a repeated misunderstanding of and misconstruction of the language referring to antitrust immunity. Airlines are free to engage in alliances and have been ever since the Deregulation Act of 1978. The threat to competition and to airline prices and fairness in the marketplace is to bless that relationship, codesharing, with immunity from the antitrust laws so that the airlines in the alliance can collude on market and pricing and on scheduling. They should not have antitrust immunity. The alliance is a fair and equitable competition device, but it should not be free from the antitrust laws of the United States. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
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James Oberstar
Democratic · Minnesota
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