>> we now recognize mr. oberstar. >> my dear friend from new jersey. the airways are the common heritage of all americans. the purpose of the deregulation act of 1978, and i was in this room, where it was voted on, was not to consolidate aviation but to expand competition, to take government out of the business of determining rates and market and in the first five years after this, there were 22 new entrants, but by the end of eight years, there were only five of those new entrants left. then there was only one, and it, too, has been 0 absorbed by u.s. airways. -- has been absorbed. what we saw just recently was a