EXCERPT:
NELSON: “You know, this has got to be resolved. So we have a growing concern for safety and security here. We know all too well what it means when you have gaps in security. The TSA was created after 9/11 when I lost my friends. Our country shut down. Airplanes stopped flying. And we had a massive economic impact from that. We lost over 100,000 aviation jobs. Many people were hurt and it led to the economic turndown that hurt so many people and had so many people out of work. There is no one that this isn’t going to touch. And when you’re standing outside and you are suddenly hit with a thunderstorm, you do not wait and negotiate in that thunderstorm and wait for lightning to strike; you get out of the way and then you talk about where you’re going to go next. They need to re-open the government stop holding all of us hostage --“