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On the recordDecember 10, 2019
Let the industry promote itself. If it needs help in that effort, I'm sure the Commerce Department is happy to oblige. Your job, Administrator Dickson, is to regulate. The only thing you should be promoting is the highest possible level of safety.
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Rick Larsen
Democratic · Washington

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Larsen insists that the FAA's role is to regulate safety, not promote the aviation industry.

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