Sam Graves

I celebrate the return of this service--and note that it took three years to restore.

To my colleagues on this committee representing gulf communities, I share the frustration you and your constituents have undoubtedly experienced.

I celebrate the return of the service and note, though, that it took 3 years to restore.

I look forward to hearing from both of our witnesses today about the difference this budget certainty has made for them in developing and sustaining programs.

The demand for more frequent, more reliable passenger rail service is real.

Upon learning of 'Operation Fouled Anchor' in June 2023, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure opened an investigation.

I am curious. One of the biggest challenges we have with permitting is regulatory certainty.

We applaud the initiative of Sen. Mike Braun and Rep. Mike Bost in urging OIG to create an antifreight fraud task force.

The key is sustained, focused attention on this class of criminality by the agency most capable and empowered to fight it.

For the purposes of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Larsen), the ranking member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, pending which I yield myself such time as I may…

So then, when you add in the fact that we are looking at advanced aviation systems, you have got advanced urban mobility, even remote piloted vehicles, that doesn't help, right? I mean, that just further exacerbates the challenges that we…

I am looking at a 98-percent increase in passenger enplanements, a 76-percent increase in airplanes. Yet, a 16-percent increase in ATPs, or pilots.

I think it's fitting that we kicked off our series of hearings with safety, which underpins our entire aviation system.

Anything less is an insult to the profession and the industry that relies on our pilots, to be quite honest with you.

I want to thank Mr. Collins jumping in as a freshman and working on solutions to this issue.

Thanks to the leadership of Chair Graves and Ranking Member Cohen and many others on the Committee, the Payroll Support Program and its strong worker protection and retention provisions provided a bridge to guarantee there are a sufficient…

We have got to find better ways to train safer and better skilled pilots and give folks the credit for the skill that they demonstrate or the high-quality training that they receive.

The men and women who keep the cogs turning in factories and repair facilities and cockpits and air traffic control towers across the country are not only instrumental to ensuring the safety of the traveling public, but they are also…

I am not convinced that kids coming out of flight school and telling them they need to be towing banners or teaching students or boring holes in the sky while racking up debt produces the best pilots.

At the end of the day, this is about the consumer.

I think if you testify one more time, you get a free cup of coffee.

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

Today, I look forward to Members sharing their policy priorities for the 118th Congress.

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

Everyone deserves the opportunity of a good night's sleep and thus communities deserve the opportunity to establish enforceable nighttime curfews at local airports.