Mineta, speaking during debate on the House floor, noted that the version of H.R. 5 before the Senate does not make the same mistake. In the last 15 years, we have largely deregulated the airlines, pipelines, trucking and railroads.
Deregulation means getting government out of the issue.
It does not mean closing the Civil Aeronautics Board only to substitute 50 state CABs. Last August we brought to the floor legislation which very substantially deregulated the economic regulation of the trucking industry. This bill would have been considered an unfunded mandate under H.R. 5 because it told the states that they could not regulate those industries. The Mineta amendment was not accepted by the House Republican leadership.