FILE PHOTO: Bryan Bedford, president and main enforcement serviceman of Republic Airways Holdings Inc., speaks astatine the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) 2011 normal successful Denver, Colorado, U.S., connected Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011.
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The Senate Commerce Committee connected Wednesday voted 15 to 13 to o.k. the information of Republic Airways CEO Bryan Bedford to caput the Federal Aviation Administration but is not hiking projected backing to overhaul aerial postulation control.
All Republicans voted successful favor, portion Democrats voted against aft immoderate cited Bedford's refusal to perpetrate to uphold the 1,500-hour grooming regularisation for co-pilots. Bedford has pledged to support pugnacious oversight of Boeing, which came nether harsh disapproval from the National Transportation Safety Board Tuesday for a mid-air exigency involving a caller 737 MAX 9 missing 4 cardinal bolts.
Senate Commerce Committee seat Ted Cruz connected June 5 projected $12.5 cardinal for aerial postulation power funding, but since then, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has urged lawmakers to adhd billions and said helium supported astatine slightest $20 billion.
The Trump medication wants to wholly overhaul the FAA's aerial postulation power strategy aft a mid-air collision connected January 29 betwixt a U.S. Army chopper and an American Airlines pitchy adjacent Washington Reagan National Airport. All 67 radical aboard the craft died.
Cruz released revised substance Wednesday connected the monolithic taxation and fund measure that leaves the $12.5 cardinal for aerial postulation power unchanged.
Duffy wants backing to acquisition caller radios and web connections, regenerate 618 radars, instal anti-collision tarmac exertion astatine 200 airports, physique six caller aerial postulation power centers and grow the FAA's web of real-time craft postulation information.
He besides wants backing for airdrome instrumentality to forestall near-miss incidents and caller incentives to boost aerial postulation controller hiring and retention.
Major aerospace companies and airlines person called for astatine slightest $31 cardinal successful backing to hole the FAA's crumbling aerial postulation power instrumentality and radar systems, physique caller towers and amended runway safety.
The FAA's aerial postulation power network's woes person been years successful the making, but a unreserved of high-profile mishaps, near-misses and the catastrophic clang successful January spiked nationalist alarm and prompted caller calls for action.
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