I do want to make sure that we understand everything that happened and we don't allow mistakes to be made again.

The FAA must fix its credibility problem.

I think they were overwhelmed. I think they were trying to figure out what was going on.

The committee will continue to maintain safety as the guiding principle and use all available tools to ensure the safety of the traveling public.

We need to learn from the mistakes, and we need to learn from the successes, and we need to build upon both of those.

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…

Millions of lives are at stake. We have to get this right. We will be changing the certification laws to ensure the 346 lives lost in Ethiopia and in the Java Sea were not lost in vain.

The most important safety factor you can have in any aircraft is a pilot that can handle whatever that situation is.

It is our responsibility as Congress to prioritize the lives and safety of crew and passengers over profits.

I look forward to hearing from Admiral Salerno on what the industry has done to implement the Act.

Today I rise to express my support for H.R. 4863, the United States Export Finance Agency Act, which reauthorizes the Ex-Im Bank's charter for 10 years. The Ex-Im Bank is a proven job-creating success story. For years, I have met with…

I think that we ought to be pulling out a book somewhere between those two bookends. And right now we are--we have gone too far.