Byron Dorgan: “This is not and should not be a controversial bill. Every American who gets on a commercial airplane in this country has…”

“This is not and should not be a controversial bill. Every American who gets on a commercial airplane in this country has a stake in this bill. This bill includes modernization of the air traffic control system which will allow people to fly in the skies more safely, more direct routes, save energy, and save pollution. Modernization of the air traffic control system, to go from ground-based radar to a GPS navigation system--we should have done that a while ago. We have not. We need to catch up with the Europeans and others. We need to move with some dispatch. This bill should have been done long ago, but it has been extended 11 times.”