Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013

Floor Speech

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Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I rise to support H.R. 1765, the Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013.

I don't want anybody to be mistaken about why I support this bill. I want Mrs. Bachmann to understand that we know that she has led the Tea Party and the right wing on all of these issues and that she led on the discussion on sequestration. It was a bad policy and it should not have been adopted by either side of the aisle; however, that is the order of the day, and we need to bring the budget to the floor and have a conference committee so we can adopt some of what was adopted on the Senate side to get rid of the sequestration.

Meanwhile, the FAA plans to furlough the vast majority of the FAA's nearly 47,000 employees, including nearly 15,000 air traffic controllers, for approximately 1 day during each 2-week period in order to comply with sequestration.

The furloughs have already begun. They started on April 21, 2013. So we're going to be backed up in these airports, and it is time for us to understand that this is an emergency. Let's get it over with by passing this bill today.

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