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To: Cogito who wrote (167568)	8/4/2011 11:14:08 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541787

I sort of like the FAA, the EPA, OSHA, and several other agencies that help keep us all safe. But then I'm a big government lover. I don't want to go back to tainted food and medicine (I've seen that in China thank you very much), and actually, I've seen how their airline safety works (it doesn't). And workplace safety? For teeny government freaks who really want to see how that works out- look and see how well China protects it's citizens. You'd think with a big centralized government like that they'd be all about safety- but no, they're all about money. And look where it gets you. nytimes.com time.com seattletimes.nwsource.com I'm so glad we have the FDA- I only wish there were more inspectors. Food police are cheap insurance, if you don't want to eat crap- actual crap, that is, as well as any number of other adulterants.

To: Cogito who wrote (167568)	8/4/2011 12:45:44 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541787

Even Kay Bailey Hutchison thinks that the House being petty and dishonorable on this. There is video at the link or a transcript below. Sen. Hutchison Slams House GOP For Shutting Down FAA: "It's Not Fiscally Responsible And It's Not Honorable" politicalcorrection.org SEN. KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON: The House has sent over a bill that has an Essential Air Service amendment that also has not been negotiated, but what they're negotiating on is the National Mediation Board. Well if that's confusing, there's a reason: because it's confusing! So why don't we un-confuse, and have a conference committee like we normally do here, and let's hash out these issues. If we had a chance to actually have a conference, negotiate all the issues, and then if someone's not satisfied, there are procedures that are honorable to blow up a bill that you don't like. But Mr. President, it is not honorable for the House to send an extraneous amendment on an FAA extension, and shut down airports that are being repaired and built in our country, jeopardizing an estimated 75,000 jobs, jeopardizing the certification of a major new airplane that wants to get out there and start being used, and an airport trust fund, an aviation trust fund that will lose over a billion dollars because we're not collecting the tax, and the airlines are pocketing the money by having a higher ticket charge, mostly, they may not all be doing that, but most of them are. And Mr. President, that's just not right. And we're gonna have to make that up because there are contracts pending that are gonna have to be paid for. It's not fiscally responsible and it's not honorable, and it's time for us to pass a clean extension of the FAA. Let's negotiate until September 30, and then if we can't agree we won't sign a conference report and it won't come back.