Political Quotes

“may I thank our friend and colleague from Arizona, who has worked for many, many years. He does reflect an ongoing dialog that my distinguished senior Senator and I, and the two distinguished Senators from Maryland, have had with him as well as Senators representing a couple of the other airports that were affected by both flight and perimeter rules. I appreciate very much and take sincerely his offer to revisit the question on noise. I hope he will also include, at least in the spirit of the commitment that he makes, both congestion and diminution in the vitality of Dulles, which is really the other major issue that we are talking about. All of these are in play. But I understand and appreciate very much, as does my senior colleague, both the commitment the Senator from Arizona has made as well as the spirit of that commitment and the spirit with which he has worked with us over a very long period of time, many years, to get to this particular point. With that, I yield the floor.”