The reauthorization of FAA is a critical part of this, and I wanted to take this opportunity to voice my vehement support for keeping the 1,500-hour pilot rule completely intact.

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

I wanted to take this opportunity to voice my vehement support for keeping the 1,500-hour pilot rule completely intact.

I will fight to protect their safety.

We must do everything in our power to prevent another tragedy.

the standard, once it was put in place--and it was a unanimous vote in Congress that put the 1,500-hour flight requirements in place--I think the data speaks for itself.

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

The Inflation Reduction Act, it provides billions to fund green energy initiatives, but are those initiatives actually bringing down the price of energy in your opinion?

We need to take moments like that to reevaluate this path that we are on.

In my home state of New York, our former Governor, Andrew Cuomo, our current Governor, Kathy Hochul, their administrations have halted our ability to safely extract natural gas.

I think it is a sad moment in our country when our American President goes on bended knee to the Saudis and OPEC nations to beg for more oil when we have the opportunity to explore more energy right here at home.