Normally when you're adding a provision to the NDAA that impacts aviation, you would request clearance from the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee. No clearance was requested [for the provision in the bill]. We discovered this provision when the final version of the bill dropped out of the House and it was passed. I think very few House members had any idea it was in there. (21:03–21:05)
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