Kay Bailey Hutchison: “The bottom line is, we want to go to the bill. The American people expect us to pass a bill to securitize the airplanes…”

“The bottom line is, we want to go to the bill. The American people expect us to pass a bill to securitize the airplanes and the airports in this country. What is holding us up is people who want to offer extraneous amendments. Some of them I agree with; some of them I do not. But the point is, we cannot put every amendment, on any different subject, on the security bill and pass it. We have legitimate disagreements on how to best securitize our aviation system. Let us go to the bill and start talking about those differences because I think we can work them out. I believe we are 90 percent there. There are a few things on which we are going to continue to negotiate, but we need to be on the bill. We cannot go to the bill if we are worried about having extraneous amendments, whether it is on employee problems and benefits or whether it is on Amtrak security--all of which I think are very legitimate issues. I want to add security to Amtrak, as long as we add security for the entire system and not just one part of the system.”