Sam Graves

This is about people, and this isn't about politics, it is not about emotion. This is about people.

We come back to it, and we keep coming back to it, and forgetting that, you know, once they set those throttles to full power, they never retired them.

We need to take every single lesson we can extract from these accidents and make sure that we learn from them.

It shouldn't have happened. So they deserve answers and accountability, as does the flying public in the United States and worldwide.

We need to continue learning. We need to figure out every mistake, error that was made in this case, and make sure that it doesn't happen again.

The U.S. aviation system is the world's safest thanks to FAA's leadership.

The aircraft actually accelerated to between 450 to 500 knots, which is far beyond the maximum speed, certified speed, of the MAX 8 of 340 knots.

If you can imagine driving down the road in a car going 100 miles an hour and trying to push the door open, you know what I am talking about.

But any actions Congress or regulators consider have to be based on facts, and not panicked desire just to do something.

The baseline for safety for commercial aviation is zero, zero fatalities and zero accidents.

the U.S. aviation system is the world's safest, thanks to our FAA leadership.

jumping to conclusions only serves to erode confidence in the U.S. aviation system when the safety record absolutely speaks for itself.

You got to know how to fly the plane, fly the plane.

But any actions Congress or regulators consider must be based on facts, not a panicked desire to 'do something.'

the most important safety feature you can have in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot that can fly the aircraft, regardless of what the investigations conclude.

I am hoping they will provide the documents we have requested voluntarily, and in the not too distant future.

You know, we shouldn't have to have tragedies to change the rules, if the rules need to be changed.

We need to be very careful to make sure that we are not acting on emotion, that we are not making this political, that we are operating on facts.

You compare our capabilities and assets to those of other Arctic nations, and even, to some degree, as you noted, non-Arctic nations. We are getting blown away.

We have to ensure that our infrastructure solutions keep pace and take advantage of the benefits of technology to enhance safety, create efficiencies, and reduce costs.

As we move forward, an important step is to gather as much input as possible from a variety of stakeholders.

We need a long-term solution for the Highway Trust Fund. We all know that we can't continue to rely on a gas tax that is becoming more and more unreliable.

That's why we should always look for ways to streamline the infrastructure delivery process wherever possible.

The President has been outspoken about the need for Congress to develop a bipartisan infrastructure package that can be signed into law.

The Committee's legislative priorities this Congress include an infrastructure bill, a surface transportation reauthorization bill, a Water Resources Development Act, a pipeline safety reauthorization, and more.