On the recordMay 25, 2011
I appreciate the gentleman's sensitivity. I certainly share his concern in protecting data points that in any way would reveal information about our aircraft and ways that people could combat our aircraft. But the gentlemen represents, I know, many military families, and I'm sure you know as I do many military people who have died in aircraft that had faulty situations. For example, the Harrier aircraft that had 45 crashes because of faulty equipment, that if the public and others had known about, the military I believe would have been brought to stop the use of this and to save their lives. So I feel that we have the same goal. I certainly want to protect information that is very critical to our flight patterns and our military; but for information that is not such as that, but faulty equipment, that should be made available. And we feel that we have that balance in this amendment. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
