Who have lost their lives. That is the sad, sad part of it all. More than 17 million initial unemployment claims. Hundreds of thousands of jobs lost in the month of march. Now millions more expected in the coming months. The assault on the lives and the livelihood of the american proportionne of epic and one that demands congress continue to take bold, urgent, effective action to bring rapid relief to the health care workers, First Responders and others who are suffering, to Small Businesses, hospitals, state and local government and the rest. On tuesday morning, secretary mnuchin called. That would be two days ago. Secretary mnuchin called and asked for a quarter of a trillion dollars in 48 hours. With no data. Just quarter of a trillion dollars in 48 hours. Mcconnellng, leader honored that request i say honored. Really dishonored needs that we have with a stunt on the floor 250e Senate Requesting billion. No data as to why we needed it. When there are outstanding needs. Sit we offere
Or the hearing will come to order. Certainly pleased to have the Witnesses Today and members of the committee. We are going to try to minimize the time we spend talking so we can maximize questions and what we can learn from those. Certainly impossible to ignore the public outcry with things that involved passengers has recently as i believe even yesterday one of the most widelt reported incidents was in chicago with united flight 4011 and lots of lesson to be learned and im sure we will hear some of those from the airport and airline and industry and looking at what happened along with the chair and senator nelson. We sent a letter and it said the last thing a paying Airline Customer should expect is to be taken off and airline and the purpose of todays hearing is to follow up on the letters we sent some of the responses we got in finding out what we are going to do so that does not happen in f the future. This needs to occur between now and september 30 and part of the hearing is30 t
Or the hearing will come to order. Certainly pleased to have the Witnesses Today and members of the committee. We are going to try to minimize the time we spend talking so we can maximize questions and what we can learn from those. Certainly impossible to ignore the public outcry with things that involved passengers has recently as i believe even yesterday one of the most widelt reported incidents was in chicago with united flight 4011 and lots of lesson to be learned and im sure we will hear some of those from the airport and airline and industry and looking at what happened along with the chair and senator nelson. We sent a letter and it said the last thing a paying Airline Customer should expect is to be taken off and airline and the purpose of todays hearing is to follow up on the letters we sent some of the responses we got in finding out what we are going to do so that does not happen in f the future. This needs to occur between now and september 30 and part of the hearing is30 t
Order. We are certainly pleased to have our Witnesses Today and to the members of the committee. We are going to all try to minimize the time we spend talk so we can maximize questions and what we can learn from those certainly impossible to ignore the public outcry with instances that involves passengers even as recently as yesterday but one of the most rightly and purported instances was with chicago flight 9411 and lots of lessons to be learned and im sure we are going to hear what some of those Lessons Learned both with the airport and airline and the industry are today and looking at what happened to Sarah Cantwell and i along with mr. Nelson, senator nelson really sent an immediate letter in that letter said the last thing of paying Airline Customer should expect this to be physically taken off and airline and the purpose of todays hearing is to follow up on the letters we sent, the responses we got and really to out what went wrong and what are we going to do to be sure that doe
One of the most widely reported incidents of course was at chicago with united flight 3411 and lots of lessons to be learned and im sure were going to hear what some of those Lessons Learned both with the airport and the airline and the industry are today. In looking at what happened, Sarah Cantwell along with senator nelson sent an meddler and that letter said the last thing a paying Airline Customer should expect is to be physically taken off an airline and the purpose of todays hearing is to follow up on the letters we sent, the responses we got, and really to find out what went wrong and what are we going to do to be sure that doesnt happen in the future. This is a year where faa reauthorization needs to occur between now and december 30th and part of this hearing is to determine what needs to be taken care of without the congress and what needs to be taken care of in the law itself. Im going to turn to senator cantwell for her opening comments. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Before i st