Next month actually marks my 30th year as a pilot from when I first showed up at flight school at Fort Rucker, Alabama.

Please explain this specific benchmark Southwest must hit in the coming months and years to fulfill your promise.

Maybe they need to come to a senator and we will call a hearing, and then we will hand you pieces of paper with names and phone numbers on them.

It is actually illegal.

Clearly, Southwest failed to heed the warnings of its frontline personnel.

What happened over Christmas was appalling.

I am working on legislation to require the Department of Transportation to audit air carrier website accessibility.

This is the first hearing we are having on this.

We can't buy it all ourselves. We need those trusted partners.

We are timing out of those who have grown up with the idea of working with your hands was noble.

We have the ability to change that.

No one should get away with criminal fraud, which is why I was proud to help provide the Biden Administration and the inspectors general with dedicated fraud-fighting resources in the American Rescue Plan.

I am deeply proud that the pandemic unemployment assistance provided relief during a crisis, and I reject this Republican concern for fraud.

you are either part of the solution or you are part of the problem.

pandemic unemployment insurance kept an estimated five million people a year from falling into poverty.

It is so vital that we do this.

Everyone on this committee is outraged at the rampant fraud experienced during the pandemic.

I hope--I sincerely hope--that especially after the Chinese balloon fiasco that we wake up as Americans.