Steve Cohen

I particularly want to say I am aware of the Colgan family that is here, and that you continue to represent your loved ones who were lost in that terrible, horrific crash.

Without that, we can't have the airlines as they should be.

We still have the safest, the busiest, and the most successful aviation system in the world.

I want to thank the full committee Chairman Sam Graves for working with us and helping to identify the hearing topics.

These statistics suggest Congress must move with urgency to intentionally develop the workforce.

Rep. Cohen's Cash Refunds for Flight Cancellations Act would ensure passengers are quickly and fairly compensated for unreasonable cancellations.

It's simple: airlines shouldn't nickel and dime parents just to allow them to sit next to their young children.

I applaud the Biden Administration for taking steps to end this exploitative practice, and urge the Committee to codify common sense transparency rules into law.

As a parent, I find it exploitative that airlines can restrict families from sitting together on flights unless they pay extra.

The Air Carrier Access Amendments Act... will help make air travel more accessible for individuals with disabilities.

Make no mistake. If the concern about addressing violent crime addressed by my Republican colleagues was genuine, they would have acted.

If you are serious about doing something about violence, gun violence, and other: the House passed a universal background checks bill.

We stand ready to pass legislation to address the serious issues facing all Americans if our Republican colleagues will let us.

Instead, we're seeing a circus, a performance by partisan politicians who have hitched their wagons to the Trump train.

I fear that you have been revictimized by this hearing because this hearing is not going to provide that change.

This is a choice that we are making, to allow all the children of America to go into school worried that they're going to be the victim of a mass shooting.

We're the only country in the world that has mass shootings practically every other day.

There is massive gun trafficking that ferries guns from those five Southern States with weak gun laws up I-95 to States like New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

If someone is a victim of a gun crime in New York City, dollars to doughnuts that gun was not originally purchased in New York State.

New York City's murder rate was 18 percent below the national average for the entire United States.

Compare that to Mr. Jordan's Ohio, where the homicide rate is 73 percent higher than in Manhattan.

Here in New York, one of the largest and most complex cities in the world, local leaders have pursued violence intervention... that have pushed crime and incarceration to their lowest levels in decades.

If my Republican colleagues were serious about violent crime and sincere in their efforts to law enforcement, they would have joined us in that effort.

We can and must do more. We must pass universal background checks.

Unlike our Republican colleagues, Democrats have consistently advanced policies to make all our communities... safer places to live.