[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21407]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                     FAITH IN THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY

  (Mr. CROWLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support for the Senate 
version of the airline security bill. The plan presented by the 
majority is simply just flawed. It does nothing to ensure that 
screening routines in this country are uniform, where screening in La 
Guardia Airport in my district is the same as screening in Des Moines, 
Iowa, where the screening in LAX is the same as in Butte, Montana. That 
is what the Democratic substitute does and the majority bill simply 
does not.
  The Senate bill passed 100 to 0 with 49 members of the Republican 
Party supporting that bill. Can they all be wrong? We need to give the 
American people full faith and confidence in the airline industry. The 
majority bill simply does not do that. The Senate bipartisan bill 
begins to do just that.

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