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Peter DeFazio

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Peter DeFazio is a former U.S. Representative from Oregon, serving in the House from 1987 until 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he was known for his progressive stance on various issues, including transportation, infrastructure, and environmental policy. DeFazio played a significant role in shaping legislation related to transportation funding and was a strong advocate for public transit and sustainable practices.

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Mar 16, 2022

The Aviation Impacted Communities Act seeks to help cities, localities, and neighborhoods to better and more productively engage with the FAA.

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Mar 16, 2022

I am pleased that we did, through the IIJA, make available more funds through AIP.

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Mar 15, 2022

Proposals for a Water Resources Development Act of 2022: Members' Day Hearing

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Mar 7, 2022

I want to thank Chairman DeFazio for his hard work on this issue, and for including preference enforcement in the Moving Forward Act.

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Mar 7, 2022

My goal is to foster a healthy freight rail market that boosts the overall economy and reduces carbon emissions.

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Mar 7, 2022

The Surface Transportation Board is heavily focused on ensuring economic vitality of the railroads when it should be supporting a balanced national freight rail system that serves its customers well.

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Mar 7, 2022

I've spent my career raising concerns about the greed on Wall Street and its detrimental impacts to Main Street.

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Mar 7, 2022

I have spent my career raising concerns about Wall Street and its attack on American industry and American workers.

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Mar 7, 2022

The pendulum has swung too far. I hope we can course correct before it is too late.

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Feb 2, 2022

I am very concerned about the ongoing deployment and the ongoing protections that will be put in place.

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Feb 2, 2022

That has got to change, and hopefully the NTIA can negotiate this, or maybe it has to be mandated by Congress.

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Feb 2, 2022

Well, the British aviation CAA found that, in fact, there is a viable interference threat to radio altimeters.

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Feb 2, 2022

I don't think we know that yet, because you have got the Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom saying that they pose a viable interference threat to radio altimeters.

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Feb 2, 2022

Having a dropped call is way less serious than having a dropped airplane out of the sky.

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Feb 2, 2022

thank you for holding this hearing to discuss critical aviation safety concerns related to 5G telecommunications networks

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Feb 2, 2022

If the events of the last two months have taught us anything, it's that the current interagency process for auctioning off spectrum is completely broken.

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Feb 2, 2022

And Canada and Czechoslovakia and many other nations that operate at a fraction of the power here in the United States who haven't seen fit to have to have exclusion zones because they are not worried about extraordinarily large high…

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Feb 2, 2022

There were five interim heads during his Presidency and, hopefully, the new head will be able to put them in their rightful place of coordinating as we move forward.

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Feb 2, 2022

They are being litigated and hopefully they will lose, and we will preserve that for the future of automobile safety.

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Feb 2, 2022

I mean, that only makes sense. That only makes sense.

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Feb 2, 2022

if we couldn't use it, we would be back to those days of people ending up in Portland and driving down on a bus. So, that is not acceptable.

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Feb 2, 2022

Ajit Pai just blew it all off because they were in a hurry to get it out there.

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Feb 2, 2022

This resulted in a disorienting display of 5G fits and starts over the last several months, inevitably due to the FCC auctioning off 5G spectrum without any concrete plan in place to safely deploy these technologies without interfering…

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Feb 2, 2022

We must not now, or ever, condemn the FAA for prioritizing safety.

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Feb 2, 2022

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will go back to a question I put to the Administrator, which is, what happens at the end of 6 months?

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