Since our last major aviation accident, Colgan Air flight 3407 which killed 49 passengers and crew and one person on the ground, there have been two fatalities in domestic commercial air travel over 13 years.

Each incident over the last 100 plus years of commercial flight has taught us lessons that we have incorporated into policy changes.

$3.5 billion in unfunded priorities that you have deemed as vital to our defense against the PLA; $3.5 billion.

As this Committee begins work on the FAA Reauthorization bill, I'd like to ask that committee members keep safety top of mind.

I will continue work to reauthorize and strengthen needed authorities to counter the escalating threats from drones.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:28 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at 10 a.m. ____________________

We have strived and succeeded in making air travel as safe as possible.

This is unfair and it is demoralizing frankly to small business owners who are playing by the rules.

I would challenge the Administration to look hard at balancing its agenda with the human rights implications that it has and to work within the realm of reality to make sure that we provide, I love your term, energy mix, to allow African…

It is critical for our nation's airports to transition from AFFF to PFAS-free firefighting foam alternatives as soon as possible.

I am gravely concerned about the CCP and the PLA's aggressive modernization timeline.

we will need to work together, Republicans and Democrats, to advance meaningful, bipartisan reauthorization legislation.

I think prioritization of these issues are extremely important.

And I would challenge the Administration to look hard at balancing its agenda with the human rights implications that it has and to work within the realm of reality to make sure that we provide, I love your term, energy mix, to allow…

The President's budget over the past several years has been focused on a woke garbage in my opinion agenda.

It is insufficient and, frankly, unacceptable what has been going on. I think it is an embarrassment to you and to your team.

Amen to that. We understand that.

I introduced bipartisan legislation to reauthorize and strengthen the DHS office responsible for managing these threats.