Political Quotes

“I offer an amendment to address what is a policy that is included in the FAA that is contrary not only to common sense, but is contrary to congressional mandate, it is contrary to environmental policies, and it is contrary to sane and safe aviation policy. Right now the Federal Aviation Administration is attempting to erect a 130-foot Doppler radar tower that would help to detect wind shear at Kennedy and LaGuardia Airports, something that I support. They are proposing to do it in the heart of a national park, of Gateway National Recreation Area in my district in Brooklyn that borders on Queens. This is a policy that is contrary, first, to congressional mandate. In 1976 when this park became the possession of the National Park Service and it was turned over, Congress wanted to make sure that this type of installation was not put there, so language was put in the bill that said, ``Nothing in this section shall authorize the expansion of air facilities at Floyd Bennett Field,'' exactly where this radar tower is going.”