Rep. Corrine Brown: “Chairman Shuster, Congressman Oberstar, Congressman Duncan, Congressman Lipinski, and I want to commend and congratulate…”

“Chairman Shuster, Congressman Oberstar, Congressman Duncan, Congressman Lipinski, and I want to commend and congratulate you for working together in a bipartisan fashion to bring a good bill to the House floor. H.R. 2276, the FAA Revitalization Act, addresses FAA's serious bureaucracy and procurement problems while ensuring that Congress keeps an important oversight role. H.R. 2276 makes the FAA an independent agency separate from DOT but still part of the executive branch. H.R. 2276 exempts the Agency from personnel and procurement systems, subject to congressional review. However, this bill does require FAA to develop new personnel and procurement systems tailored to meet the FAA's specific needs while still maintaining important employee rights such as whistleblowers protection, labor-management relations, and laws prohibiting discrimination. That's why it is important that H.R. 2276 be enacted into law before April 1.”