On the recordApril 6, 2016
in the last 12 hours or so, the Republican leader and I have had some very productive discussions on the FAA bill and the associated tax title. Those discussions have been productive, as the Republican leader said, and so I say to all my Members, we are going to go ahead and support invoking cloture on this part of the bill. We are going to proceed to this legislation. We should know in a few hours how much of the postcloture time will have to be used. I hope not very much. I hope we can get right to offering amendments. As the Republican leader said, Senators Nelson and Thune will manage this bill and the committee did a good job. There are airport security measures in the bill. I think we need to do more, but what they did is certainly a step in the right direction, so there will be amendments dealing with airport security coming from our side. There could be some other amendments, but we will see. I do hope we can yield back whatever time is left on the motion to proceed to the bill. I hope we can do that no later than this afternoon. ____________________
