On cspan. Org, our homepage, and by searching the cspan library. The whitep asked house to announce and initiative to put privatization in the air Traffic Control system. We will turn it over to a self financing, nonprofit organization. This entity will not need taxpayer money. Plan, the faa will focus on what it does best, safety. A separate entity would be charged with ensuring route efficiency, timely service, and a reduction in delays. Joining us, tonya snyder from politico. What brought us to this announcement . Been failuresave on the faas part in bringing next Gen Technology into implementation. This is a transition everyone agrees need to be made, from radarbased and Radio Communications to a satellitebased system for navigation. The faa has been slow, gone over budget. There is a feeling and needs to be turned over to the private sector to manage the transition. There have been efforts since separate air Traffic Control from the federal government. About 60 other countries have done something similar. What is slowing the process down and what could be different or so different that a private entity could do a better job . Guest depends who you ask. If you ask democrats with a slowing it down, it is underfunding from congress. What could be different about the private sector, it is ideological. The private sector will be able to move faster, more efficiently. The airlines are pushing for this. This is something may want to happen. The idea is they can also self not be so they will subject to the appropriations process, sequesters, the debt shutdown. Vernment host if you want to find out , we have divided the lines differently today. Flyer,are a frequent 202 7488000. If you work in the air Traffic Control system, 202 7488001. All others, 202 7488002. Tweet your thoughts cspanwj. Oversight . Oversight has failed the faa. No one disputes that. Congress would also oversee it. Entityroot, the new would have its own board. The makeup of that sort has been heavily contested. Been that board has heavily contested. How much of a role government would have on that board. Trumps board and representative this proposalrd started with him last year. The makeup of the board is slightly different, but not radically. The air Traffic Controllers themselves have a seat at the table. This is the statement the union put out. What do you see behind the statement . Host they have been in favor of bill shuster. His plan is a Good Foundation that could use some tinkering. The air Traffic Control union is waiting to see what the tinkering will look like and make sure that there they have been promised they will maintain federal benefits. That federal benefits remain, that their pay remains. Host dfa the faa says the Traffic Controllers and control centers, do the numbers go down with the work force behind those who watch it day in and day out . Guest i dont know about the number of towers. That has been a point of debate. Airports would get the attention from air Traffic Control that they need. Been reticentve to go along with this plan because they are afraid they will be left behind. There is a little a amount oft participation. Host they are ensuring the same numbers will take place. Why the large amount of numbers . Because of the work requirement or shift requirement . Why do we see so many onboard . Guest i am not sure i can answer that. I dont know if that is something people i have not heard lawmakers take aim specifically at the size of the workforce. Perhaps because they are trying to get nafta on board. I have not heard that being discussed. What people are talking about when they say there needs to be a change, it is about the implementation of the gen. Host frequent flyers, 202 7488000. Air Traffic Controllers, 202 7488001. All others, 202 7488002. I oppose this idea peoplest chews up the sovereignty. That belongs to all of the people and not to the airlines or a few corporations that will gain from this privatization. Aivatization is always question of crony capitalism. There is no other way to put it. Inallow this to have to without adequate and sufficient debate is wrong. That is my opinion. Goodbye. Guest that is the opinion of Many Democrats that have talked about this proposal, including the top democrat on the House Transportation Committee and bill nelson. Selloff of assets , more than 50 billion worth. Would be held assets given to this new corporation. The ideas that taxpayers have already paid for those assets and that they would have to pay for it again if this corporation would need to acquire that technology new. A large constituency that agrees this takes away andreignty from government gives it to commercial airlines that have their own interest and their own financial interest at heart. Commercial airlines charge taxes to raise capital. Under this system, do we still see taxes or would there be another financing system . Those the airlines hate taxes. They say it is their money, money that takes that is taken out of what they think they can charge for ticket costs. The idea those taxes would be if the airlines think about it as their money, they would not necessarily lower rates. The corporation would be funded by a user fee. That would be on the aircraft itself. This is one of the reasons private pilots are nervous. That cost is not spread among passengers. It is by the pilot or whoever is on the plane. Would be by operation. Airlines are saying it is a fee they are going to pay. Unclear how that would be passed down to passengers. It is also unclear on how that fee would change and who would change it. Just because the president wants to push the pattern, what is congresss role . This is a congressional issue . This is a congressional issue. They tried last year when they were reauthorizing the program, bill shuster proposed the same it never got to the house for. The senate did not want much to do with it. They passed a shortterm reauthorization for the Aviation Program because of that. Program and took care of the Security Issues they needed to take care of. Bill shuster is trying to bring it back. It has not seemed to change the congressional dynamics at this point. Republicans on the senate side are not warm to this idea. Is alsoblican chairman on the appropriations committee. Feel it takes power away from them, away from congress. Republicans are worried about it, worried that general aviation and rural airports are going to get left behind. Congressional is still very challenging. Io, go ahead. When our taxes dont and services those taxes pay for [indiscernible] host i apologize. You are breaking up. , see ifk and try again you can get a better connection. We will hear from ben, south carolina. Gps and new technology will let the airlines land much quicker. They would not have to circle. It would be much better. We would need to have oversight of the peopleies running it to make sure they are not you know. It is not for so that would be easy to do. On how gpsou expand would expand when it comes to air Traffic Control . Gent no one debates next would be a huge improvement. At this point, when planes are ascending and descending, they go to a certain level and plateau and up again and plateau. Ascend andbe able to descend and a smoother glide, which would save fuel, reduce emissions, and be a faster, more comfortable flight. Planes can also fly closer with radarbased fly closer together than they can with radarbased technology. It would reduce airport delays. Talknents of the plan about benefits of the plan to separate air Traffic Control separate they are on track to finish next gen, finish the first major phase of the next gen implementation by 2020. This plan to renew corporate nonprofit entity would take place in october 2019. It is unclear whether the private sector could speed up or slow itntation down. Host elenor, washington, d. C. , go ahead. Caller i was wondering about the nonprofit tang. It doesnt always mean the people running it dont profit, but the company itself is not profiting. How would this affect prices for people flying . Flying is already expensive. Guest we dont know how the user fee will affect ticket prices. We dont know how airlines will pass the fees along to customers. Customers wont see those fees on ticket prices. As for the nonprofit status, it the idea would be there would not be shareholders that make money off of this. Who is controlling the way these policies are set . The fear is that it would be run to the financial interest of the arlines and there has been great deal of conversation about how much power the airlines would have on this governing board. It is not necessarily that anyone would profit directly from this company, but airlines could profit from the way this new structure is run. Canadahe president cited about how this is run. As an example about how this is run. Countries have a similar structure as to how this is run. No one wants to talk about the u. K. Because they went bankrupt a few years ago. Theunited states has busiest, most diverse, most complex airspace in the world and the safest. Are saying this is the solution in search of a problem. This system is not broken and we are trying to fix it. There is a problem with the gen implementation, but this is the solution for that. Host why did the u. K. Go bankrupt . Think it was after 9 11 and the reduction in air travel. Considered politico safety in the skies . A shift of responsibility in case there is a failure of d conflicts in failure of deconfliction. If they want to have an airliner ratherf that we would have not, you could have a huge disaster. Guest the idea of safety is paramount here. It is the primary goal of this that it would improve safety as it improves navigation. Feel u. S. People who itspace, being as large as is with the Safety Record as good as it is, is something you dont want to mess with. There are a lot of different opinions about that. Gen, no far as next power is operating under this system. That is my understanding. For arlines have asked delay in the implementation as it is said to be rolled out, even under the faa. Aircraft wont be ready for it by 2020, by the implementation deadline the faa has set. Host how long has the effort been made . Guest a long time. Next jan has been underway and has been a long stretch. In faa is over budget implementing it. Ohio, dave, on our line for others. Caller i heard you talk about you were not sure about staffing. I was in the Marine Corps Air 12,hing and everyone worked 16, 18 hours a day, whatever was needed. Werenly people who did not air Traffic Controllers. Anyone ad not give break, except for air Traffic Controllers. Shifts, longt breaks. A private corporation would not be that careful. That is all i have to say. Thank you. Would not be careful enough to give breaks to air Traffic Controllers as needed . Think safety in the skies is paramount to everyone. I dont think they would suddenly be worked to the bone. That is not something that has been an issue that has been talked about. Far as the timeline, where do we go from here . Guest mrs. Trump throwing his support behind congressional initiative. Reauthorize the faa program as it is, or they can thatthis radical change would take about 75 of the faa away from it and put it under the and put it under a separate government entity. Like i said, the dynamics and the Politics Around it are not settled and are not necessarily favor, butidents having his support is meaningful and will be meaningful for some Congressional Republicans who until now have been hesitant to join on with this plan. Said, the president is also a very polarizing figure, and the politics of supporting the president on any issue a pretty start for members of the republican party. Host tanya snyder joining us of politico, politico. Com. Thanks for your time. Guest thank you for having me. Host we will do open phones until 10 00. For republicans, for democrats, 202 7488002 for independents, posted video on twitter if you want, and facebook. Com cspan is how you can reach us on facebook. We will take those in just a moment. Afteray night on words, new american president and ceo annemarie slaughter explores global networking in the digital age in her book the chessboard in the web strategies of connection in a network world. Ms. Slaughter is interviewed by dennis madonna, former dennis is mcdounough, former chief of staff for the white house. 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