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Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006

Date: June 30, 2005
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Transportation

TRANSPORTATION, TREASURY, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, THE JUDICIARY, THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2006 -- (House of Representatives - June 30, 2005)

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Ms. WATERS. Mr. Chairman, I wish to thank the gentleman from Vermont for bringing this issue before us today.

Mr. Chairman, I have a station in my district that would be impacted by this; hard working people who work to protect all of the general pilots that come into that area, the City of Hawthorne, will lose their jobs. I do not understand why somehow the Alaska Flight Service Stations are protected from this privatization effort but all of the other stations are not, and they are going to consolidate and basically close down most of these 61 Flight Service Stations in the United States that service the needs of general aviation pilots, but not the Alaskan service stations.

In addition to that, I do not know what pilots the gentleman is referring to who have gotten behind consolidation and closing down these stations. It is not true of the pilots who call me. They do not like the privatization. They want to do away with it. They support the amendment of the gentleman from Vermont that we have before us, and I would ask the Members of this Congress to stand behind this amendment.

Save these Federal jobs and keep the protection that we have with these very caring Federal employees who do not want to be placed in a situation of unemployment.

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