It is my hope that we use the reauthorization opportunity to push the FAA safety and technology into the 21st century.

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

We all know why we are here today, which is in the middle of the holiday travel rush.

We all know why we are here today, which is in the middle of the holiday travel rush.

the Biden Department of Transportation should instead let the flying public vote with their feet.

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.

I think the fundamental problem is that the Government's comparative advantage is not really to manage and operate a technology service.

Now, the Department of Transportation didn't give any mia culpa to impacted travelers.

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

In the view of the Southwest pilots, what caused 16,000 flights to be canceled, and what needs to be done to prevent that from happening again?

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.