Bill Shuster: “This amendment can properly be called the ``Traficant Buy American Amendment,'' and we support it.”

The United States has the safest aviation system in the world. That can never be taken for granted.

The United States is a world leader in aviation. We are also the world leader in innovation, and one of the sectors that I want to see thrive is the use of unmanned aerial systems.

I do not believe that privatizing the ATO is the answer.

I believe that they fundamentally agree with me that the FAA is broken, and that--although it is a very, very safe system, the efficiency, the innovation, the modernization for decades has fallen behind.