I have made aviation safety and enhancing the air travel experience for passengers and crews a priority.

Congress, the federal government and the aviation industry must work together to protect airline crews, airport staff and the traveling public from passenger outbursts.

This behavior from a small percentage of the traveling public is disgusting, unacceptable and a danger to fellow passengers, crew and the entire U.S. aviation system.

the economy continues to emerge but has not yet emerged.

There was bipartisan legislation incorporated into it... to bring back workers, to protect those workers' jobs.

It is important that the economic and job opportunities available in these industries be available and accessible to all Americans.

I acknowledge that I, myself, have more work to do to understand and address these barriers, such as systemic racism, that enables inequity and injustice to persist in the United States.

As a white man, I acknowledge that I, too, have more work to do to understand and address the barriers, such as systemic racism, that enable inequity and injustice to persist in the United States.

the demographics of the United States are changing, and we need to change with it

I believe that the FAA is the right agency for the job.

I'm excited to announce that I have reintroduced the 21st Century Aerospace Infrastructure Act.

As Chair and as a Member of Congress, I have made improving diversity in the U.S. aerospace industry a priority.