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.
I don't understand how this is going to work when I voted against this process.
Can you point to any significant steps that were taken to change the culture and relieve this undue pressure?
I am sorry to say I am hesitant about putting my family on a Boeing airplane.
I know that you have lost your board chair. You are still CEO, you still serve on the board.
Do you think, in retrospect, it was a mistake to not inform pilots of the existence of the MCAS system?
And I hope that I can get a commitment--and I am sure you don't have any problem with that--to do that.
We are still unclear about why Boeing designed the 737 MAX to rely on a single point of failure that the company knew could potentially be catastrophic.
If you need a reminder of the lives that have been devastated by these tragedies, you can look to the family members.
We need answers. But we also know that we need reforms on how commercial aircraft are certified.
We are going to get to the bottom of this, and we are going to fix it, and we are going to see it never happens again.
Essentially, you--Tiffany has made a judgment that this would--is not a desirable or sustainable project, and would cause irrevocable environmental harm.
I would note that we are wasting a lot of time on a document that has been withdrawn by the Trump administration.
I guess this may be normal in this administration, but it is not the way the process is supposed to work.
This Administration is once again putting private industry wants at the top of its agenda, risking the health and safety of our nation's ecosystem.
I recognize the tremendous political pressure the leadership of the Corps must be facing from this administration to rush approval of this project.
I would suggest that any jobs created from this mining proposal will be to the detriment of the lives and livelihoods of native Alaskans.
Protection of Bristol Bay is critical to native Alaskan villages that have lived in this area for over 4,000 years.
Let me state, right from the start, that the Pebble Mine proposal is a bad idea made even worse by the sham review process currently underway.
This project is an abomination, and it does have massive implications, not just for Alaska, not just for the west coast, but for the future of sockeye salmon worldwide.





