Sam Graves

Airline travel has truly revolutionized this planet, giving us access to areas that never were previously accessible.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Last Congress, we came together to pass a long term, bipartisan, comprehensive FAA Reauthorization that made significant strides in improving the passenger experience, including for passengers with disabilities.

we can't continue to throw good money after bad.

tearing down a levee that saved people and replacing it with one that didn't has got to be one of the biggest wastes of taxpayer dollars I have ever heard of.

no community should have to go through the difficulties that Hamburg faced, simply to protect themselves from severe flooding.

Keeping the Water Resources Development Act on a 2-year cycle is critical to address and advance our Nation's water resources infrastructure needs.

I encourage the committee to prioritize this important infrastructure project, ensuring that the products grown or manufactured in Kansas can make it quickly and efficiently to market.

I support the Chair's legislation and hope we can use what we learn today as the basis for more protections for animals in the future.

It is important that the well-being of livestock be a serious part of disaster relief and mitigation efforts.

Thank you, Chair Titus, and thank you to our witnesses for being here today.

you have 2 percent of aircraft mechanics and 4 percent of pilots are women, 3 percent of commercial pilots are African-American, and only 7 percent of commercial pilots are Hispanic, or Latino.

I am always offended every time I hear you come up here and talk about all the high-tech things you have going on up in the Pacific Northwest.

The pipeline of people seeking careers in aerospace has been running low for years.

I think we need to be very careful about stepping on one another's turf or territory.

It is important not just to the future success of the U.S. aerospace industry, but to the hardworking men and women who make up our aerospace workforce.

We are looking at shortages to the tune of 754,000 jobs over the next 20 years in terms of maintenance techs.

These are the kinds of jobs that you can raise a family on, while also having the flexibility to find work in just about any part of the country.

I wholeheartedly support efforts to deal with barriers to entry and ensure a steady, more reliable pipeline of well-qualified and diverse aerospace professionals.

I look forward to working in a bipartisan way to address workforce shortages.

Today's hearing is very important. The pipeline of people seeking careers in aerospace has been running low for years, and predicted growth in commercial aviation makes an already serious situation even more critical.

What are your thoughts on Military AMP experience?

what is the one biggest thing that Congress could work on to help address the gap that we are now facing

The aviation industry today is the largest sector in terms of our net trade benefits.

What do you hope to get out of the two advisory committees on women and youth in aviation that were set up by the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018?