Congress must continue to hold Boeing accountable for the safety of its aircraft.

Our subcommittee will work with all the relevant parties to enact any legislative changes necessary.

In the spirit of George Miller and Sheila Jackson Lee, who always gave up their time when they didn't have any time, I give up the rest of my time.

We have got to have another test soon that has real plane-like, life-like features.

I also ask that the Administrator be held in contempt if he doesn't get all that done.

Changing Boeing's culture, systems, and processes will take time.

I would like to go on record and thank NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy.

We are here to discuss Boeing, not Boeing's problem with getting capsules up to and carrying back astronauts from the space station.

This morning I woke up to bad news. One of my friends, JD Souther, also known as John David Souther, a great singer, songwriter, and an actor to boot, passed away yesterday in New Mexico at the age of 78. JD wrote a lot of songs that the…

If you genuinely want to develop solutions supported by diverse stakeholders, our advice is you stop pacifying and empowering those who not only continue to display an open hostility to collaboration with industry.

Joe Biden cares about regular working folks, and they're not being heard. They're for Joe Biden.

I think Joe Biden's going to run. And Joe Biden knows he can win. He knows he can be president.

And he's shown he can master the -- he's a master of the legislative process.

Donald Trump doesn't know anything, except he respects power, and he respects authoritarianism.

I think he convinced a lot of people he should stay in the race. I haven't heard anybody speak so much and so well and so knowledgeably about foreign policy since maybe I don't know, back in the world (ph), Dean Rusk.

All this dissidence is only helping Donald Trump, and he's the last person in the world you want anywhere.

All stakeholders need to be invested in its success and ready to contribute to solutions that create awareness for aviation careers.

By streamlining and optimizing the FAA's organizational structure to facilitate as much technological advancement as we possibly can, the American aviation industry won't only be able to compete with China, they will be able to supersede…

I echo Representative Cohen's sentiments.

I ask unanimous consent the record of today's hearing remain open until such time as our witnesses provide answers to any questions that may be submitted to them in writing.

We need to urge and see to it that the workforce looks more like America and gives people opportunities to move up the ladder.

we would encourage more hearings in the Aviation Subcommittee going forward that focus on advanced technologies.

When we are a diverse industry, we can get to more efficiency, we can get to more safety.

We did pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill and FAA reauthorization bill. It was truly bipartisan.

Thanks to a provision in the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 the DOT Inspector General must conduct an audit of the FAA workforce plan.