Political Quotes

“we have enacted legislation to provide for safety aboard American airlines and at American airports, and there is already a very heavy burden of responsibility on the FAA to undertake in conjunction with each safety rule making a benefit-to-cost study as they proceed in the rulemaking process. That has enormously bogged down the FAA. One of the most important considerations now in light of tragedies that happened last year in the commuter airline sector is to have a single standard of safety between part 121, the major airlines, and part 135, the commuter and regional airline operators. It has taken months, it will soon be over a year, for the FAA to issue regulations in this area, where the commuters are agreed and that majors are agreed that those safety regulations ought to go into effect. Now, they have been bogged down because of this need to conduct the cost-benefit analyses for 15 different signoffs within the FAA and DOT and the Office of Management and Budget. If you add to that someone can stand up on the floor and make a point of order, and say no, you can't do that, what are you doing to safety?”