Madam Speaker, I rise today with a heavy heart, a heavy heart because our country consistently turns a cheek, turns and looks away at the violence, the mass shootings that seem to be reported every day in the news. It is simply not enough…

I am afraid that is kind of the scenario that we are in today, in that you represent innovators...

As one example of an application where drones can be helpful, during the 2016 floods and Hurricane Laura in 2020 in my home State of Louisiana...

We cannot allow the opportunities these technologies provide to our constituents to be stifled by endless redtape and requests for more data and studies.

How would you feel if you prepared yourself for a marathon over months and months of training, working out really hard, and you get in that race, and you are at mile 26, and all of a sudden, the course just ends?

Again, unmanned aircraft systems (or drones) and advanced air mobility (AAM) aircraft, have the potential to revolutionize our transportation systems...

The last thing we need is FAA's lack of leadership and unwillingness to accept new ideas to drive the next great age of aviation out of America.

These people have overcome obstacles their entire lives, and all that's going to happen is that we are going to cede our leadership in aviation technology to other countries.

The last thing we need is the FAA's lack of leadership and its unwillingness to accept new ideas to drive the next great age of aviation out of America.

I want to thank the witnesses, and I want to apologize to each of you for being out of pocket here for a little while.

We want a safe, reliable, and repeatably produced aircraft, right?

This is a fundamentally safer technology. You have the authority to make a physics-based declaration of what it means to be certified.

If you look right on the western end, or the western side, they actually have the Wright brothers' plane up there depicted because of its transformative role in United States history.

We appreciate Chairman Graves (R-LA) and Ranking Member Rick Larsen (D-WA) for their work on the Advanced Aviation Infrastructure Modernization (AAIM) Act.

We are grateful to Chairman Garrett Graves, Congresswoman Sharice Davids, and members of the Committee for introducing and passing the 'Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Coordination and Leadership Act.'

The permitting process right now is slightly convoluted-- actually, it is more than slightly convoluted.

What we need to do is, we need to maintain that leadership position by continuing to be innovative.

The Biden Administration has led the largest speech censorship operation in recent American history.