Last year, I joined with my colleagues in the Quiet Skies Caucus in calling on the FAA to establish an advisory committee of 30 citizens who live in communities impacted by airport noise.

I have twice introduced the standalone legislation the Valley-Wide Noise Relief Act together with Congressmember Adam Schiff.

The FAA should be required to conduct an Environmental Assessment for all new procedures.

The FAA must hire more air traffic controllers to deconflict airspace and safeguard our skies and the ground below.

We must provide local airports with the ability to disperse both arrivals and departures if they have proposals that can be implemented safely.

We must restore local community control to the airports.

I supported Congresswoman Meng's bill, the Decrease Noise Levels Act, and I would invite you to include that in your FAA reauthorization.

We will continue our oversight of the Administration to hold it accountable for its policies.

I am really excited to help, in this next FAA bill, to be able to work together with everyone on this committee, to help to chart a path that creates the certainty, that creates the predictability that you need, that truly moves at the pace of innovation, as opposed to being this bottleneck or impediment to progress.

We need to make sure that this bill is focused on that next generation of aircraft, on the new entrants into market, that we maintain the balance of safety and innovation moving forward.

The United States, as some of you have noted, we are the gold standard in regard to safety, and we are the gold standard in regard to innovation.