[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 136 (Friday, September 27, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S11529]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 FAA REAUTHORIZATION CONFERENCE REPORT

  Mr. FORD. Mr. President, I want to make one comment about the express 
carrier we got the objection on to the FAA. I have been advised by 
legal counsel--not representing either side in this controversy--that 
every fact of law has sustained the express portion of the ICC bill. It 
was to be in there because nothing should be narrower or wider. Nobody 
should get anything when they pass the ICC legislation.
  So I understand where we are coming from, and I understand whose 
fight it is in. I hate to be in the catch-22. We can stay a while if 
that's what they want to do, offer a cloture petition, and we will have 
30 hours, and we can drive right on. I don't mind staying here. I don't 
want to any more than anybody else. But if that's the way the game is 
going to be played, I understand how to play it. If we get 60 votes, 
then we will have to vote on it. If we have to vote on it and we pass 
it, then it goes to the President. That is the end of it.
  If you want to stay around a while, keep objecting to this one, file 
a cloture petition, we will get cloture and get our 30 hours and do our 
thing around here, Mr. President.

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