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committee hearing is about 2.5 hours. the committee will come to order. this morning we are having a hearing on strengthening the aviation workforce and we have it a panel here. i plan to have the majority of the hearing chaired by my colleague senator duckworth, a pilot in her own right and chair of the subcommittee, but i am going to make an opening statement and have our colleagues make opening statements, senator moran, then turned it over to her. yesterday at the faa safety summit there was an agreement that there has been an uptick in safety incidents, from near misses to runway incursions. among critical action items is ensuing that we increase training to account for human factors in the cockpit and control tower. we have always had the risk of human error. as we bring in new safety workforce, we must double down on the human factors and training. we also must have the right safety equipment to identify and prevent runway incursions and near misses and these a ....