Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013

Floor Speech

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Ms. NORTON. I thank the gentleman for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, Congress did not foresee the controllers' crisis. They will not foresee the next one. We have not solved the controllers' crisis with money. It was not about money. It was not about cuts. It was solved the old-fashioned way. They simply moved money around. This is exactly what was done with appropriations that are not having this crisis.

We can solve this if we have a meeting of both sides of the aisle on the budget. What would happen at that meeting would probably be not to cut a thing, but simply to allow agencies the flexibility to move money around, precisely as has been done with the controllers' crisis. Not 1 cent was changed, just the flexibility, the common sense that we now need to put to every single appropriation.

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