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Byron Dorgan: “First, this is not the place to do it. This is not the place to offer the amendment. They have the right to offer the…”

On the recordMarch 16, 2010
First, this is not the place to do it. This is not the place to offer the amendment. They have the right to offer the amendment but we are trying to get a bill done here. The rest of the world is moving forward to modernize the aircraft control system and we, with the most congested and complicated air traffic control space in the world, we have extended the FAA authorization 11 straight times because we have not been able to get a bill done.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota
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Mar 16, 2010

Editor's note · Context

The speaker addresses the unrelated amendments being discussed during the FAA reauthorization bill debate.

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