I want to thank the panelists for your patience. Thank you for being here and being with us and were looking forward to your testimony. Rather than go through the record well start. Thank you. So first of all, id like to thank the committee for the extraordinary work that you did with all of the stakeholders to get a longterm faa reauthorization bill passed. It had been a long time since that had happened and everyone came together, and the votes that you received, we are 393 in the house and 93 in the senate. This is a clear mandate to move forward with very important safety provisions for our Aviation System. Among those was our issue of ten hours rest for Flight Attendants. Now, this is an issue of safety, health and equality. Safety, we had been raising the flag on this issue for more than 30 years, identifying Flight Attendant fatigue, getting through other faa reauthorization bills the commission of fatigue studies, seven in fact that determined that Flight Attendant fatigue does
The subcommittee will come to order. The chairman will be able to call recess. Good morning and thank you to todays witnesses. In addition to the integration of the entrance of drones into the airspace, they provide challenges to aviation safety. Legislation set to a Solid Foundation to improve the nations safety. Is ans hearing opportunity to get the public perspective on current challenges and risks of our aviation system. This testimony will also shape our priorities as we continue our investigation into the boeing 737 max and into the and itst of the faa authorization bill. For the sake of time, i am going to speak first about the panel number two and then shift to the first panel. Later, we will hear from the first panel. In the fall, we will discuss the faa preauthorization act. Their testimony will help us prioritize. Testify ntsb when they about recommendations outlined in the most wanted list of safety improvement, we want to the safety of aviation technologies. Congress canno
Increasingly frustrated by the federal governments response. Chris taylor second joins us now live in the studio with more on this. Taylor. Were seeing it daily. The numbers continue to climb in the San Francisco Health Department. They reported an additional 20 cases today bringing the total case count to 281 mayor breed was joined with other local and state leaders. In todays announcement, all hoping that this Emergency Health declaration will help San Francisco get more vaccines. San francisco has one of the highest case rates already of monkeypox of any other major city in the country. San Francisco Mayor london breed sounding the alarm on thursday declaring a local Public Health emergency for monkeypox received about 12. Vaccines today. We really need 70,000 mayor breed says the city requested 35,000 vaccines, but demand continues to far exceed the supply. She says this declaration is a legal action that will mobilize city resources, accelerate emergency planning, streamlined staf
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