The hearing will come to order. It isored to impossible to ignore the public outcry with incidents that have involved passengers, as recently as yesterday. One of the most widely reported was that chicago would united flight 3411. And lots of lessons to be learned and im sure well hear what those lessons learned, both with the airport and the airline and the industry, are today. In looking at what happened, i, along with and senator nelson, really sent an immediate letter, and that said the last thing paying Airline Customer should expect is to be physically taken off an airline. The purpose of the hearing is to follow up on the letters we sent , the responses we got, and to find out what went wrong and how to make sure this doesnt happen in the future. This is a year when faa reauthorization needs to occur between now and september 30. And part of this hearing is to determine whats going to be taken care of without the congress and what needs to be taken care of in the federal law its
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
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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
The president had with our own jeanine pirro, maybe wholesale changes are in order. Well looking at that, what that could mean. Whether a change in staff is something that would be constructive or something that the president s critics have likened to rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. There is no middle ground here. To the federalist, bree peyton, gop fundraiser, noelle nikpour, and former trump michigan cochair. How real are the rumors are . We hear them percolating after a white house crisis, however real you call this, how do you take this . Will happen and question when and what magnitude. The president has been forced into this situation. It is important for him to act, to send a clear message that everybody that works for the administration it is important to protect confidentiality, protect the administration as goals. Neil all right. Noelle, you could go back and say much of this is of the president s own doing. He kind of keeps aides in the dark. They have to come ba