Let me observe that we were able to get that bill out of the Commerce Committee because we did not deal with the slot issue. I understand there is an appetite for slots and perimeters. The only way we will get an FAA reauthorization bill…

It deals with the question of travel to Cuba. As you know, what we have at the moment and have had since 1962 is a prohibition on the American people's ability to travel to the country of Cuba. Cuba rests about 90 miles off our shore. We…

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…

It is my hope and the hope of Senators Rockefeller and Hutchison that we will be able to make progress and complete the FAA reauthorization bill. This is the fourth day. We have seen so many interminable delays in the Senate. Let's not…

It is disappointing that it has slowed down, as have most of the issues we have dealt with in recent months, in the past year. Apparently, we will vote either later tonight or likely tomorrow on an amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill…

Other countries are making good progress on this, going to a GPS system. GPS is not a new technology, as many of us know. You see many vehicles, automobiles around town using a GPS to navigate. You have people using GPS on their cell…

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…

I have just visited with Senator Rockefeller. Of course, we, along with Senator Hutchison, are trying to pass an FAA reauthorization bill, which is not as easy as it sounds. This is not one of the most controversial or difficult or…

the FTC has had only limited weapons in its arsenal against corporate wrongdoing.

There is an urgency to this legislation. I know it is not, perhaps, the highest profile legislation in the Congress these days, but we have a requirement to reauthorize the activities of the FAA. We have now failed to do that and instead…

Much of what we will discuss today is about commercial aviation--getting on an airliner someplace and flying across the country or across the world. But I wanted to mention that there is another component to this, and that is what is…

I urge policymakers to think long and hard before they allow a merger that gives the parties incentives to harm competition and consumers.