Rick Larsen: “The traveling public needs assurances that the FAA will only recertify the aircraft for flight if and when the FAA…”

Thank you, Chairman Webster, for calling this hearing on a topic of great importance: icebreaking capabilities.

I am disappointed it does not include any of the funding included in the President's disaster supplemental request.

As more is uncovered, it falls on Congress to support the FAA and NTSB in their ongoing investigations.

The region is rich in natural resources including 90 billion barrels of undiscovered oil, 30 percent of the world's undiscovered natural gas and $1 trillion in rare earth minerals.