Honorable Louise Slaughter
United States Representative, New York, Democrat
Representative Slaughter, of the 28th District of New York, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1986. She served in the Monroe County (New York) Legislature from 1976 to 1979 and in the New York Assembly from 1982 to 1986. She is a member of the House Rules Committee. The following is from a February 1, 2001, hearing before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on Consolidation in the Airline Industry.These hearings come at a critical time. Today we are seeing the end-game to an experiment that began 20 years ago when Congress voted to deregulate…