I must tell you this. When I look at where we have been--and I have been involved with FAA and aviation since I have been in the Senate--no matter how many pleas we made for filling the population, for having people trained--we face enormous retirement possibilities, and we do not have the population available to go into these slots and maintain the kind of presence that we would like to see.
Lautenberg discusses staffing challenges in air traffic control due to retirements.
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