Ted Cruz actually said...

"Safety, quite rightly, is the top priority of the FAA, and we should not be compromising on safety."

"We need to be--as a customer, if I am not confident of an airline's ability to get me from point A to point B on time, I will choose a different airline."

"Regulatory overreach as egregious as that would undermine decades of progress in air travel, harming the very consumers that the DOT claims it is trying to protect."

"We have to consider how to keep our air space safe and efficient."