Political Quotes

“Madam President, this is, in fact, the aviation bill. As everybody knows, that is what we are doing; we are doing the aviation bill. We are talking about health care, but secretly we are doing the aviation bill. So I thought it would be interesting to talk about the aviation bill, to sort of bring people's minds back to that very important subject. It is interesting, because we want transparency, no filling up of the tree, everybody could offer all of the amendments they want. We immediately got amendments to repeal health care and other kinds of things but nothing about aviation. So as manager of that bill, I am going to talk about aviation. I do not guarantee it will be a scintillating speech, but it is going to be about aviation, because that is the bill we are on. I rise to speak about--which I did a little bit yesterday--the modernization of the Nation's air traffic control system. It is kind of important to New York and New Jersey. I cannot emphasize enough to all of my colleagues the importance of this issue to the United States. It is an issue I care deeply about, one Senator Hutchison cares deeply about, one I am completely committed to getting done. We have to. It is a sine qua non. It will make air traffic safer, more efficient, provide numerous economic and environmental benefits. I touched on air traffic modernization in my opening statement yesterday.…”