[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Pages 19481-19482]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                    AVIATION SECURITY ACT--Continued

  Mr. HOLLINGS. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays on the bill.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arizona.
  Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I thank the distinguished chairman of the 
committee for his leadership and effort on this very important 
legislation, and all the staff who have been involved. I also thank 
Senator Rockefeller, particularly, and Senator Hutchison, as well, for 
her incredible efforts on this legislation.
  This is an appropriate day for this legislation and the antiterrorism 
legislation, given that it has been 1 month since the terrorist attack. 
We in the Senate are taking a major step in ensuring that this kind of 
thing can never happen again. All of us in this body can be pleased at 
the effort that has been put forth on this legislation.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from South Carolina.

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  Mr. HOLLINGS. Mr. President, I thank our distinguished ranking 
member, Senator McCain, for his total cooperation and leadership on 
this measure, along with Senator Hutchison of Texas and Senator 
Rockefeller of West Virginia who lead our Aviation Subcommittee. It is 
not only an important safety measure but, in a sense, an airport and 
airline stimulus bill because now, if the House can take this up in 
judicious fashion, we can move forward and everyone can be assured 
immediately of security in air travel.
  For example, the American people will know once and forever that a 
domestic airliner is never going to be used as a weapon of mass 
destruction because we will have that cockpit secured, never to be 
opened in flight, so then we can economize on our requirements for the 
military patrolling over flights, ready to shoot down a domestic 
airline because it cannot be hijacked in the sense of taken over and 
directed anywhere, beyond a particular discord or disruption in the 
cabin itself. Once that occurs, the pilots will be informed, they will 
land, law enforcement will be there, and that will end hijacking in 
America, as it has in Israel.
  It is a very important measure with which we move forward promptly. I 
am delighted and pleased, particularly with the cooperation I 
mentioned, the staffs on both sides. But the whip, Democratic whip, 
Harry Reid, Lord knows--I have been here 35 years; I am still 20 years 
younger than Strom; he was here a minute ago--he is the best whip I 
have seen.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill having been read the third time, the 
question is, Shall it pass? The yeas and nays have been ordered. The 
clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  The result was announced--yeas 100, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 295 Leg.]

                               YEAS--100

     Akaka
     Allard
     Allen
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Cantwell
     Carnahan
     Carper
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Clinton
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Craig
     Crapo
     Daschle
     Dayton
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hollings
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Miller
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Nickles
     Reed
     Reid
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stabenow
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Voinovich
     Warner
     Wellstone
     Wyden
  The bill (S. 1447) was passed.
  (The bill will be printed in a future edition of the Record.)
  Mr. HOLLINGS. I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. DASCHLE. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Texas.
  Mrs. HUTCHISON. Mr. President, the Senate has done a terrific job of 
doing something on the 1-month anniversary of this tragedy for America 
that will begin to rehabilitate the economy of our country, and that is 
with aviation security we can begin to assure the American public they 
can fly in safety.
  The Senate has passed its bill. I think it is a terrific bill. It 
will augment the cockpit. It will give better quality screening. It 
will put air marshals in the air.
  The American public needs to know the flying system is safe, and this 
aviation bill is a good start in that direction. I hope the House will 
follow suit and pass its bill. I know there are some differences, but I 
hope they will act expeditiously so we can send a bill to the President 
that will begin to rehabilitate the whole aviation industry and the 
industries that depend on it.
  So I thank the distinguished chairman of the committee, Senator 
Hollings, Senator McCain, Senator Rockefeller, my counterpart on the 
Subcommittee on Aviation. We could not have done it without the total 
support and the total bipartisanship that produced the 100-0 vote.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Carper). The Senator from South Carolina.
  Mr. HOLLINGS. Let me thank, once again, the distinguished Senator, 
Mrs. Hutchison of Texas. It is bipartisan, mainly because of her 
leadership.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.

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