Democrats object to moving forward on Sen. Hutchison’s FAA compromise legislation that omits extraneous, non-aviation provisions
Washington, D.C.—U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday regarding the FAA bill:
“Republicans do not oppose moving forward with an FAA Modernization bill.
“In fact, we would be more than happy to move forward on the aviation-related provisions of the Commerce Committee and Finance Committee titles of the bill on the floor.
“The Ranking Member of the Aviation Subcommittee, Senator Hutchison, has been down on the floor for a week flagging the extraneous, non-aviation related provisions in the Finance Committee package as a problem.
“She has called repeatedly on the Majority bill manager to join her in seeking to remove those extraneous, controversial provisions and move forward with a clean FAA bill.
“Unfortunately, the Majority has not accepted her offer to date, and so we find ourselves in a stalemate.
“I think that is unfortunate, and unnecessary. But there is a way to pass this bill in a bipartisan way if our colleagues will only take ‘yes’ for an answer.”
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