Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I would agree with my colleague that this program is vital. It is vital for the future of aviation and for medicine and for all sorts of applications. What it shouldn't be used for is a woke agenda. The BEYOND program expansion is supposed to enable testing of new emerging aviation concepts and technologies to inform policies, rulemaking, and guidance needed to enable these new concepts and technologies, again, not to be leveraged for wokeness. The government should not stick their nose into Americans' lifestyle, well-being, and societal preferences by use or leveraging the BEYOND program, and that is exactly what my colleague is encouraging. Mr. Chair, let us not allow the Biden administration to shift attention away from the real problems that Americans face every day to his administration's radical leftist agenda, which they try to creep into every aspect of our lives. I urge adoption of this very commonsense amendment, which focuses on the underlying bill, the true mission of the FAA, which is aviation and safety in our skies, not wokeness. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.”