William Clinger

The purpose, I want to reemphasize, is to make it very clear that it was our intent that the President not be able to look beyond statutory or report language. That is the absolute limit as to what he is able to look at or impact. There…

I would just also have to rise in reluctant opposition to the gentleman's amendment. I think he is right to be concerned about what some of the impacts could be. But I think he is also wrong in the assumption that giving flexibility to the…

Mr. Chairman, the gentlewoman's amendment is going to do much to shed light on how this whole bill is going to work. It is going to provide Congress with the administrative material to comply with H.R. 5. The information is going to be of…

I think it represents a very, very good compromise between very divergent views on this question of judicial review. I think it is better than what we started out with, that it is clearly an improvement. I am delighted to accept the…

I would say to the gentleman we have had, I think we have, 60 suggested exemptions. If you want a meaningless bill then we would exempt all 60 of them.

I do not think anybody has suggested here we do not believe this bill means something. What it means is that it is going to give us a better opportunity to understand what we are doing, the cost of what we are imposing, but in no sense…

Reclaiming my time, we are not talking about a crisis, but an emergency, and the definition of an emergency I think is a lower temperature than a crisis.

Mr. Chairman, as the gentleman said, this amendment would add age to the list of antidiscrimination statutes that would not be covered by H.R. 5. There are certainly no intent to exclude this. We certainly want to make sure that the…

Reclaiming my time, we did indeed as the gentleman indicated provide certain exceptions. One very important one is those matters that do affect civil rights. I think the gentleman would agree that that has a constitutional implication that…

Reclaiming my time, I was certainly not in any way suggesting that a mandate that was clearly going to improve the safety of passengers in this country should not be passed through. But what I am saying is that, given the perilous…

In fact, the language really was done in consultation with private sector interests to ensure that they would not be disadvantaged by the language of the statute.

The debate on private/public sector issue, and there is an issue there that I think will be debated, is going to go forward. I do think--we are not suggesting that this is in any way going to undermine, or impede, or undercut existing…

We have had a thorough debate on two of the proposed exemptions, both of which were rejected by substantial votes. So I think we have made it pretty clear we do not intend to accept these. Hopefully some of these would be withdrawn or not…

Yes; that does not come into the equation now. We do not have any requirement under existing law to enter into--to have any consideration of the costs. I would stress this is not about the merits or demerits of any program that we are…

I would state that I am very sympathetic to the gentleman's concern about the Commission and the ACIR as being the proper receptacle. There will be an amendment offered in this regard. The Senate has already made that change. I think this…