We are grateful for this committee's leadership, and dismissal for more than a decade, of ALPA's dubious and misleading claims surrounding shortfalls in the Open Skies framework.

Congress has a responsibility to address these challenges to ensure we retain a robust U.S. aerospace and aviation workforce now and in the future.

American innovation, economic growth and global leadership are impossible without the hard-working Americans that make up our nation's aerospace workforce.

We want to thank members of Congress who unanimously passed landmark aviation safety legislation Public Law 111-216.

I include in the Record the following letter from 111 organizations opposed to overriding the veto of this Congressional Review Act resolution. April 17, 2023. Re: Vote NO on the veto override of H.J. Res. 27, the Congressional Review Act…

It is imperative that Congress put the safety of passengers and aviation workers first.

Before I reserve my time, I want to state, again, for the record, that the Federal courts blocked the implementation of the previous administration's navigable waters protection rule. It wasn't this administration. In response to that, the…

To be clear: there is no shortage of pilots.

American innovation, economic growth, and global leadership are impossible without the hard-working Americans that make up our Nation's aerospace and aviation workforce.

Another reason why maybe it is a good idea to increase the authorization levels for section 625, because it is clear from the amount of applications that come in that we are hardly meeting the demand right now.

The unprecedented safety record that we've benefitted from... should serve as a testament to the life-saving benefit that it brings to the aviation industry.

We must start modernizing existing maritime workforce programs.