Sam Graves

We must restore local community control to the airports.

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

We have multiple items that have to be reauthorized by the committee, which includes a 5-year reauthorization of the FAA.

Everyone deserves a good night's sleep. And those who are bombarded with noise all day should not be bombarded with noise, and their houses should not shake, at night.

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

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 support that bill today and look forward to working with Congresswoman Meng to reintroduce it.

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

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

I respectfully urge you to include the text of H.R. 2558 in the 2023 FAA Reauthorization bill.

If a challenge to reducing noise is rooted in deconflicting airspace, then we must hire more air traffic controllers.

That is why I am calling on the committee to triple the funding for these reliever airports in urban congested areas to 2%.

provide the safest, most efficient aerospace industry in the world and satisfy the needs of aviation interests of the United States.

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

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

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

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

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.

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…

Letter from Sam Graves, Chairman, H. Comm. on Transp. and Infrastructure and Scott Perry, Chairman, Subcomm. on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Mgmt, H. Comm. on Transp. and Infrastructure to The Hon. Lloyd J. Austin…

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.

We respectfully request the Committee engage in a case study on what the real supply-chain solutions are.

We congratulate the work of your Committee last year to pass the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).

As you know, the bill has begun to boost the national economy through significant investment in the transportation sector.

We stand ready to assist with any such efforts by your Committee.