"I will continue to do so anytime their goals are at risk."
"we need to do everything in our power to protect these training requirements"
"this is a bipartisan issue and I'm proud to work with my colleagues across the aisle"
"no business decision should ever come before public safety. Period."
"Since 2010, commercial aviation fatalities have been reduced by 99.8 percent."
"We do have to be tougher on China, but the United States has to be tougher on ourselves about China."
"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."
"I will fight to protect their safety."
"This is a bipartisan issue and I'm proud to work with my colleagues across the aisle."
"But this year as the FAA Reauthorization process continues, some are calling the hard-fought 1,500-hour pilot training rule into question."
"A watering down, a circumvention of those rules would put into jeopardy the flying public and their best interests moving forward."