Bud Shuster: “I thank the gentlewoman for offering this amendment, but I do oppose it. This amendment would require the FAA to develop…”

“I thank the gentlewoman for offering this amendment, but I do oppose it. This amendment would require the FAA to develop a global-scale guidance system related to convection activity. The FAA already has extensive resources for obtaining necessary weather information for safe flight operations, including thunderstorm information, lightning, and so on. Additionally, the FAA is currently engaged in such weather- modeling development and is actively working towards deploying such capability in the future. However, this amendment will likely require significant budgetary resources from both the FAA and NOAA, and, unfortunately, the brevity of this amendment and the lack of details results in a vague mandate that may distract the FAA and NOAA from their ongoing efforts. If the intent is to improve forecasting efforts, then let's not distract them from those efforts they are currently involved in. For these reasons, I urge all my colleagues to oppose the amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.”