Political Quotes

“We passed a bill out of the House in July of last year in a strong bipartisan manner, a vote of 351-69, despite the fact that we have been in this incredibly challenging and polarizing Congress. We came together because of the importance of this legislation, and since 2018, the last time we did an FAA bill, we have seen profound changes in the aviation industry. For example, in 2018, there were approximately 100,000 remote pilot certificates that had been issued by the FAA. Today, there are nearly four times that many at 400,000. In all of 2018, there were 33 commercial space launches that were licensed by the FAA. This year alone so far, in the first 4 or 5 months, there have already been 47. For the first time in nearly 20 years, we have had a national ground stop, and just weeks ago, we had a facility incident where there were ground stops at three of the Nation's largest airports. We have seen profound changes in the aviation industry over the last 6 years. This bill brings fundamental solutions into areas like aviation safety that is so critical, ensuring that we have an entire title on innovation, looking at unmanned systems, and advanced air mobility ensuring that general aviation is treated in a way that is appropriate and integrating to the airspace and efficient. We are ensuring that we have the workforce that is needed, not for yesterday's aviation industry, but truly for tomorrow's.…”