We need to make Congress a part-time legislature. The more time they spend legislating, the more time they have to come up with time-wasting nonsense like this.
Political momentum to keep a ban on cellphone calls during flights gained momentum Monday as lawmakers said it would be crazy to allow them.
Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) became the second lawmaker after Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) to offer legislation to keep the ban in place.
“Let’s face it, airplane cabins are by nature noisy, crowded, and confined,” said Shuster, the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. “For those few hours in the air with 150 other people, it’s just common sense that we all keep our personal lives to ourselves and stay off the phone.”
The bills follow a flood of complaints to the Federal Communications Commission, which announced last month that it would look into ending the ban.
So we’re going to go around legislating what a few politicians think is “common sense” now?
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