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Jay Rockefeller: “I want to support the FAA conference report. I think virtually everybody in the Senate would want to do it. It includes…”

On the recordNovember 17, 2003
I want to support the FAA conference report. I think virtually everybody in the Senate would want to do it. It includes a lot of things that are very important to me for West Virginia. West Virginia is not at the center. We are not exactly a hub of jet aviation, but we are served by many good airlines that do their best to help us. We all know the issue of privatizing the air traffic control system has held this whole thing up for months. It is perplexing, because it does not seem to me to be that big an issue. Yet if we are simply to accede to it, in language which is potentially very vague, we have no idea what might happen.
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Jay Rockefeller
Democratic · West Virginia
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Discussing support for the FAA conference report and concerns over air traffic control privatization.

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