Political Quotes

“First off, I want to be clear. I think government unions should be legal. They are legal in the United States, and I am very pleased they are legal so those unions can represent the women and men who go to work every day on behalf of the taxpaying public to do their job in service. In that vein, too, there is no indication that FAA employees are en bloc not showing up to go to work. They may not be going to the workplace because we have telework policies in place. That does not equate--it does not equate to people not doing the work that we ask of them. In fact, this bill, the FAA reauthorization bill, the Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in the American Aviation Act, asks the FAA to do even more to improve the already gold standard that we have in U.S. aviation in the United States. We are giving the FAA employees plenty to do, and our committee will commit to ensuring that the FAA does just that through our oversight responsibilities. Mr. Chair, with my remaining time I do want to thank the chair of the full committee, Sam Graves, for his leadership to get us to this point. We are on the verge of passing a comprehensive, bipartisan, negotiated- in-good-faith, important, policy-based bill, I presume in a bipartisan manner, which may not make the news because it wasn't exciting enough for the news.…”