[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3702]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        FAA REAUTHORIZATION BILL

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, in the last 12 hours or so, the Republican 
leader and I have had some very productive discussions on the FAA bill 
and the associated tax title. Those discussions have been productive, 
as the Republican leader said, and so I say to all my Members, we are 
going to go ahead and support invoking cloture on this part of the 
bill. We are going to proceed to this legislation. We should know in a 
few hours how much of the postcloture time will have to be used. I hope 
not very much. I hope we can get right to offering amendments.
  As the Republican leader said, Senators Nelson and Thune will manage 
this bill and the committee did a good job. There are airport security 
measures in the bill. I think we need to do more, but what they did is 
certainly a step in the right direction, so there will be amendments 
dealing with airport security coming from our side. There could be some 
other amendments, but we will see. I do hope we can yield back whatever 
time is left on the motion to proceed to the bill. I hope we can do 
that no later than this afternoon.

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