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Don Nickles: “I urge my colleagues, I don't think we have to get in a trance, and say I am for this and not for that. I don't think…”

On the recordDecember 7, 2001
I urge my colleagues, I don't think we have to get in a trance, and say I am for this and not for that. I don't think now is the time to make that decision. Let us make that decision when we are considering all airports and when O'Hare is debated and we are wrestling with other competing airports. We will have airport needs, demands, security, and a lot of challenges for all airports that we will be considering. To make one decision now say: Well, we favor basically greatly expanding Chicago against the will of one of the Senators from Illinois, and against the will of many of the Congressmen from Illinois, to do that on a Department of Defense bill is a mistake.
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Don Nickles
Oklahoma
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Discussing airport funding decisions during a debate on the Department of Defense bill.

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