Unfortunately for those customers, those payments are little consolation for passengers like Christine Pastore.

What we can say with certainty about the Biden administration's blueprint for advancing a renter's bill of right is that NAA's advocacy helped avert an Executive order.

if the big corporate landlords see this blueprint as a cause for celebration, then I think it is probably safe to assume there is a lot more that the Administration could do to meaningfully protect renters.

During the first 11 months of 2022, more than 25 percent of Southwest flights either arrived late or were canceled.

If you have well-balanced deterrents on both sides, a comparable number of nuclear capabilities between the United States and Russia, for example, you are less likely to get into a conflict.

In response to what happened, Senator Blumenthal and I called on Southwest to provide a cash hardship payment beyond refunds.

Essential to deterring and winning future conflicts, not just modernizing our military, that is pretty obvious. But also developing a next generation or a new generation of alliances and arms control.

I think that is fundamentally wrong and that anyone that is breaking the law should not be permitted to participate in these Federal programs.

Because you did not listen to those warnings, catastrophic conditions were created for passengers by the hundreds of thousands.

It is their choice. Would you give them a cash payment in order for them to fly on another carrier rather than Southwest?

There is a serious problem. In total, the airlines caused 53,000 cancellations in the first 11 months of 2022, more than double than before the pandemic.

During the first 11 months of 2022, more than 25 percent of Southwest flights either arrived late or were canceled.

Unfortunately for those customers, those payments are little consolation for passengers like Christine Pastore.

And again, that just misses the whole point about the customers, how they were inconvenienced, and how they need to be compensated with cash. It is deeply disappointing to us.

It is an important first step, but we need more.

We know that housing is the largest expense for American families every month, and the problem has just gotten worse.

We don't have a NATO alliance or a NATO-like alliance in the Pacific, which is of great concern as we look at the rise of China.

I led a letter with Congressman Jamaal Bowman, joined by 47 of our colleagues, calling on President Biden to take Executive action to protect tenants and bring down rental costs.