Hearing lasts an hour and 45 minutes. Were a couple minutes but will get started. The subcommittee on safety aviation will come to order. I want to welcome everyone to our hearing today addressing close calls to improve aviation safety. This may be the most important hearing we have all year and i want to thank chair cat well, Ranking Member cruz and moran in their help to making this hearing happen. The near misses weve been seeing recently are not normal and are a warning our Aviation System is under stress. And today we will have an opportunity to hear from several Key Stakeholders about why were experiencing so many near misses and what we need to do to increase our safety margins. Well hear from National Transportation safety chairwoman jennifer hamady, chief operational officer tim worrell and rich santa, Airline Pilots association, captain jason ambrossy and former administrator randy back out. While disagreements tend to garner more coverage than compromise, its worth noting i
And i yield the floor. Mr. President , we come to the floor, my colleagues have already been out here today. Its a great day for aviation because we have a product before the United States senate and members will be out to vote to move forward on consideration of this important aviation safety legislation. As my colleagues have already said this is a bipartisan, bicameral agreement on f. A. A. Authorization. Its important to reauthorize both the federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation safety board for another five years. We are not only giving them direction and resources to improve safety, but were asking them to keep uptodate on the implementation of the latest technologies that help us do just that. I want to thank my colleague, senator cruz, just on the senate floor for helping to negotiate this through the senate commercial committee and chairman graves and larson from my state to their dedication producing this bipartisan, bicameral legislation and senator
This sector to earn their livelihood. The aviation sector is the Gold Standard of safety, and im proud of the improvements and reforms made in this bill and i look forward to working with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to advance the bill to final passage. Thank you, and i yield the floor. We come to the floor my colleagues have already been out here today its a great day for aviation because we have a product before the United States senate and members will be asked to vote to move forward on consideration on this important aviation safety legislation. As my colleagues have already said, this is a bipartisan, bicameral agreement on the faa reauthorization. Its important to reauthorize bothni the federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation safetyan board fr another five years. We are not only giving them direction and resources to improve safety, but we are asking them to keep uptodate e on the implementation of the latest technologies that help us do just th
Cspan, powered by cable. U. S. Senate is about to gavel in for more debate on the u. S. District Court Nomination for northern illinois. Lawmakers are also expect today vote on whether to begin work on a fiveyear f. A. A. Reauthoritization bill. Current f. A. A. Programs expire on may 10th. Live now to the floor of the senate here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Gracious god, turn your ears to listen to us. Without you, we are but disappearing dust. Draw near to us, for in your presence, we find our dignity and destiny. Lord, breathe into us the saving knowledge that we belong to you. May this awareness inspire us to live for your glory. Guide our lawmakers. Remind them that they can depend on you for the vindication of every just cause, the forgiveness of every confessed sin, and the protection from every weapon that is formed against them. May they trust you to giv
The guessing game is on. Washington pundits and Lawmakers Debate potential candidates to replace fired fbi director james comey. Leland already sunday night here in jerusalem. Good evening. The yours office is firing back at the u. S. Secretary of state. We will have a key member of Israels Parliament to react. Its always true here in the middle east, not for its old moments even on mothers day. Thats right. We are glad you are there to cover up for us. A lot of news out of washington and the world did the skit straight to it. North korea defying International Pressure and criticism, launching an intermediaterange test missile. The white house reacting strongly say north korea has been a menace for too long. This has the later show of course by kim jong uns new president takes office. Caroline shively joins us now with the latest. Reporter the missile flew more than 430 miles before it dropped in to see japan off the east coast. It doesnt appear to be an intercontinental ballistic miss