Frank Lautenberg actually said...

"I leave, with one expressed hope, that we do not permit cell phones to be operative in airlines."

"The salary of Captain Sullenberger...was cut 40 percent in recent years...forcing him to take a second job."

"And it would---- so, how can we object to something like this?"

"It's threatening to turn the beaches, marches and coastlines of the Gulf into toxic waste sites."