Jeff Duncan: “Mr. Chairman, I have no further requests for time. Let me just say I understand the gentleman from New York (Mr. Weiner)…”

“Mr. Chairman, I have no further requests for time. Let me just say I understand the gentleman from New York (Mr. Weiner) is going to offer an amendment, and we are going to agree to this amendment concerning the installation of a doppler weather radar system in Brooklyn, New York. This provision was placed in this legislation because there was a dispute between the FAA and the Department of Interior, the Park Service, on the installation of this system. We have been told that the Park Service and the FAA have now reached an agreement to go ahead and install this system. The staff had included this in the legislation just because of some uncertainty regarding a pending Federal lawsuit on this issue. I will simply say this: we feel it is the intent of the Congress that this system should be installed there, and we will remove this provision at this time, reserving the right to revisit this issue if necessary in a conference with the Senate or at some later point if for some reason this agreement is not carried out. With that said, Mr. Chairman, that we will agree to that change, we do have a good bill, a necessary bill, and I urge the support of the entire body for this reauthorization of the National Transportation Safety Board.”