[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 1217]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            VOTE EXPLANATION

  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I was unable to vote today because of a 
family emergency. I want to be clear that if I were present in the 
Chamber, I would have voted in favor of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse's 
amendment No. 8 to provide penalties for pointing laser pointers at 
airplanes. Instances of this dangerous practice doubled last year, and 
I believe we need to take the strong actions necessary to protect our 
flight crews and the flying public from dangers such as this.
  I also would have voted in support of the motion to table Senator 
Rand Paul's amendment No. 19 to prohibit any funds made available by 
the FAA Reauthorization Act to be used to administer or enforce wage-
rate requirements with respect to any project or program funded under 
the bill. I will continue to work with my colleagues on both sides of 
the aisle to protect American workers, especially in these tough 
economic times.

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