Brian Higgins

I would also like to encourage the committee to continue to improve airport and aircraft accessibility.

I urge you to include H.R. 911, the Saracini Enhanced Aviation Safety Act.

I urge the committee to exercise oversight over the Department of Transportation in this case, as I am, and call on Secretary Buttigieg to issue the final rule that was due back in 2019.

Every American that steps on a plane deserves the peace of mind that there is one level of safety among all US airlines.

I will continue to do so anytime their goals are at risk.

Protecting the 1,500-hour pilot training rule isn't a partisan issue, it's about maintaining the safety of our air space.

But this year as the FAA Reauthorization process continues, some are calling the hard-fought 1,500-hour pilot training rule into question.

These regulations were put in place 14 years ago and as a result our skies have never been safer.

The victims' families did not blame the pilots themselves, because they were victims too. They blamed the system that allowed inadequately trained pilots to fly our commercial planes.

A watering down, a circumvention of those rules would put into jeopardy the flying public and their best interests moving forward.

Since 2010, commercial aviation fatalities have been reduced by 99.8 percent.

This is a bipartisan issue and I'm proud to work with my colleagues across the aisle

We need to do everything in our power to protect these training requirements

No business decision should ever come before public safety. Period.

We do have to be tougher on China, but the United States has to be tougher on ourselves about China.

This is a bipartisan issue and I'm proud to work with my colleagues across the aisle.

I will fight to protect their safety.

President Trump was on the way to doing that before the pandemic.

The 1993 budget passed with no Republican votes in the House, no Republican votes in the Senate.

Every Republican since Nixon has left office with a worse deficit situation than they inherited without exception.

Every Democratic presidential administration has left office with a better deficit situation as a percentage of GDP than they inherited.

Those surpluses were taken by the next administration, a Republican administration, to provide tax cuts to the very, very wealthy on the faulty theory that trickled down would help grow the economy, and it didn't.

As has been said here by many, the best way to grow an economy is to invest in it.

They contributed to the debt and therefore have a moral responsibility to raise the debt ceiling to help the American economy.

The past five recessions started under Republican administrations.