Kathleen Rice: “I am eager to hear from today's witnesses who have first-hand experience with the consequences border communities face…”

I remember, in the days and weeks and months after 9/11, you know, which basically shut down the aviation industry for some time.

The CAROL Act is named in honor of Carol Leavell Barr, the wife of Rep. Andy Barr, who died last year of sudden cardiac arrest.

I think what we are--the subject matter of today's hearing brings me to that--again to that issue of how we get people around safely and efficiently.

This tragedy hit home for one of our former colleagues, former Congressman Rick Nolan, who lost his daughter Katherine to lung cancer even though she did not smoke.