the commercial aviation industry is experiencing the safest period in history...

safety is always going to be the highest priority on my agenda.

Mr. Chairman, would you allow me to ask every person in the audience who is a dealer to stand?

Can I just count, Mr. Press, on your word today that you have made in this public forum, to every dealer who has signed the agreement, that they don't have to sell at fire sale prices, and they don't have to have the fear that has just…

It is not our place to change your decision. It is our place, especially where there is so much taxpayer money involved, for us to make sure that everyone is treated as well as can be in this circumstance.

I appreciate everything that you do for us, Senator. You look out for us and that's why we are here today.

Do they understand--do they know that, because I'm not hearing that from one dealer that they understand that there is a plan in place that this inventory will be taken.

So many of these dealers, I am told, are selling at fire sale prices to the surviving dealers and that's not right.

Well, you said earlier that you appealed to the dealers and because Mr. Whatley took everything you asked him to take, every time you asked, you're not--you didn't go into bankruptcy earlier this year, you are now, but here is Mr. Whatley…

Help me understand what appears to be an effort to change the contracts with the dealers that are in place.

In Waco, Texas, a town of 122,000, all three Chrysler dealerships are being closed.