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.

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

The United States has continued to experience the safest 13 years in the history of airline transportation in America in large part because of the '1,500-hour' minimum requirement for pilot training as passed by Congress in 2010.

They have continued working with HBCUs to break down barriers for Black students.

The aviation industry is approaching a critical juncture with respect to its talent development, especially the recruitment, training, and retention of individuals in its workforce.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I believe the Second Amendment is important, but I think protecting second-graders from being killed is important as well.

So, a gun is the common denominator in eight out of 10 homicides. How can we take that away? We cannot do that. We must continue to fight for commonsense gun law.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 you get rid of those three agencies, there's no Federal mechanism or arm to actually prosecute violent crime at the Federal level.