Senate and House committees today approved a legislative compromise that would end the Wright Amendment flight restrictions at Dallas Love Field as a House committee took up a similar bill.
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation approved the compromise legislation by a vote of 21-1, with the only dissenting vote coming from the panel's ranking Democrat, Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia.
After the vote, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said she would continue to try and win Rockefeller's support so she could seek to bring the bill to the full Senate by unanimous consent.
While the bill introduced in the House does not have identical language, "we're on a dual track," Hutchison said.
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