To the invention of supersonic aircrafts the push for whats possible, revolutionized travel. What was once novel yes even dangerous has become commonplace bordering on monday. And is year over year the safest way to travel the world, in 2018 along the, u. S. And Foreign Airlines kara come by one billion passengers, roughly one ace of the entire global population. Right now i can fly from d. C. Texas in last than 100 dollars. We have democratized transportation in the way the right brothers, could never imagined. This evolution has not without challenges, from deadly often preventable crashes to, simply setting up a system that managed to traffic, we have had ingenious safer machines, crashing, inland new system to meet our really neat. In short, we have to adapt as the landscape changes. Which brings us to the topic of today, improving and modernize air Traffic Control for the American People i. Want to make clear from the start that i am sure the air Traffic Control, efforts from prev
The committee will come to order. I now recognize mr. Lobiondo for a motion. Pursuant to rule 1a1, i move that the chairman be authorized to declare a hearing on todays hearing. All those in favor signify by saying aye. The ayes have it and the motion is agreed to. I want to thank everybody for being here today. This is an important hearing were having here today. And were talking about what i consider extremely important legislation. And i believe everybody on the committee, both sides of the aisle, believes reauthorization of the faa, reforming it, is extremely important to all of us. The way america travels, moves goods, and conducts Business Today depends on an efficient transportation network. And in order to remain competitive, we need a 21st century infrastructure with modern 21st industry technology. This is especially true of our Aviation System. But the fact is the faas infrastructure is increasingly obsolete and its technology is still cemented in the last century. To quote
Pmi partner, the leader of the democratic side of the committee, nick, great friend, great ally, a lot of stories with nick, my staff told me not to tell the one i really wanted to tell. I will get rolling here, you never know what will come out but through the when we sat down for the first time to talk about how to Work Together, nick said it is about communication. Let me know where you are and where i am, we worked hard on that, there were times we would negotiate with the senate and we agreed to be on the same page and there are times to get together to figure out what would happen in the room and he would come wait to get a chance to talk that he truly was a great counterpuncher. When barbara would come up with something we disagreed with i didnt have to, he was able to counterpunch and help prevail on the issue. Again, it is a great honor to work with you and got a lot of stuff done. There was one really interesting story, the most important word is where it passed but there was
Concept of the militia is that it is everybody or virtually everybody in the body politic. One of the more recent discussions of the militia concept i found in the d. C. Heller case, an individual Second Amendment case, however there was some dicta in there discussing the militia in its collective sense, and in there, the Supreme Court stated that unlike armies and navies, the militia is assumed by article 1 to already be in existence. Although the militia consists of all able bodied men the federal organized militia may consist of a subset of them, so there is a distinction between organized militia and unorganized militia, and the type of militia im going to discuss today is the organized militia, which is the National Guard. And this particular distinction between organized and unorganized militia is carried through into each state. Under state law, for example in maryland, where im a judge advocate in maryland as well, in the Maryland National guard, you can see that the state code
For example, if we have a Truck Company that needs training on how to drive trucks, it is it makes more sense if theyre driving trucks that they can also, for example, haul goods and water or whatever to benefit perhaps a relief effort than to just take their empty trucks and drive around in circles on a military base and benefit nobody but themselves, so, a lot of assistance is provided as an incident to training or operations. And the distinction there is that it has to be a training operation. The primary purpose is training and the incidental purpose is the assistance. Even though to the recipients of that assistance that may be everything in the world to them. But, again, for lawyers, you know, you have to carefully make sure that its captioned in the right terms because otherwise you run into fiscal issues when youre using training money for nontraining purposes and finally have state active duty. And thats per state law. And state law is a little different. Normally speaking the