The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation moved forward with plans to add five long-distance flight slots to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport despite pushback from local lawmakers in Virginia and Maryland.

The proposed expansion to flight slots exempt from the 1,250-mile perimeter rule for the airport in Arlington, Virginia, came as part of the committee’s Federal Aviation Administration’s reauthorization bill. The move to add more flights to DCA comes less than a year after a bid to expand the airport’s perimeter rule failed in the House of Representatives.