"OK. Thank you."
"I heard exactly those same things a couple of months before ValuJet when my amendment was defeated, and then my colleague said: Oops, that doesn’t look too good, does it?"
"I understand that we want to promote this industry, and we do. You know, this is great for the U.S. to maintain our leadership in space, but the question is, why would we have the same agency promote ..."
"The issue is critical. You know, many people have been talking about this for years."
"I mean what is the goal? I mean if the goal is to get people--you know, because it becomes more expensive as you go through the process."
"Our air traffic controllers are doing a phenomenal job. Some of them are being forced into mandatory overtime, 6-day weeks."
"I would suggest, since we are doing a lot of pretend legislation around here on the floor, maybe we should do some real legislation."
"It is not right to tax people for something and then take the money away."
"It actually came to the conclusion it should be an independent Government corporation removed from the Federal budget process."
"I mean this whole process is aggravating. I mean I think we are screening out, potentially--at least one, and I am sure there is more than one--qualified people from becoming controllers."
"So if we had a, actually, applied working group that drilled down into each center and came up with higher numbers, why do we even bother with the mathematical algorithm that popped out of the finance..."