Well, 12 and a half billion dollars is a major investment in modernizing air traffic control. There's no doubt we need to do so. It's something I've been fighting for, for over a decade in the Senate, that If you look right now at our air traffic control system, it's outdated equipment. They use radars from the 1950s, they use little slips of paper and computers that have floppy disks. My guess is a lot of your viewers don't even remember what floppy disks were. And yet that's what we rely on to keep, keep our flying public safe. (03:07–03:20)
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