Larry Pressler: “I want to commend the Senators from Kentucky and Arizona for their great efforts and to say I will certainly stay here…”

“I want to commend the Senators from Kentucky and Arizona for their great efforts and to say I will certainly stay here as long as it takes to pass this bill. This bill is critical to pass. In my little State of South Dakota, for example, we have all the essential airport funding, we have the Federal Aviation flight service, and small States that have small airports depend on the airport trust fund. This will be a disaster to air safety across the United States. It will be a disaster to everything we have been talking about since the major air crashes that have occurred, if we cannot pass this bill. I am privileged to chair the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee. Our committee, on a bipartisan basis, on a motion from our ranking member, agreed to this amendment. It was a bipartisan effort. We must pass this bill. We have worked it out in our committee. It was a long-fought, hard-fought bill, and we must pass it. I yield the floor.”