In a report that will make you want to travel by car for the rest of your life, the FAA's records detail how "near collision" episodes are frequent and ongoing.
I’m annoyed that this article doesn’t call out the people responsible for this whole ordeal. First: the FAA has been without a confirmed administrator for over a year.
“The FAA, which manages air traffic throughout the nation, has been without a Senate-confirmed leader since March of last year, when Stephen Dickson resigned halfway through his five-year term. Since then, the agency has faced understaffing of air traffic controllers, a technical outage that grounded flights nationwide in January, and several close calls between airline jets.”
Biden has not made nominating a qualified candidate a priority. The Senate needs to stop dicking around and approve or deny faster, because they’re the reason this stretches on. And Secretary of Transpiration Pete Buttigieg seems to only appear in the news when he’s apologizing after people ask where he is when a critical piece of transportation infrastructure suffers a catastrophic failure. Maybe he’s doing great things, but I’m not hearing about them, I’m just seeing signs of things not going well, and I’d like some reassurance.
I honestly thought that Transportation was going to be the thing that Biden and Buttigieg would be best qualified for, and I’ve been pretty baffled by the lack of management going on.
Collision avoidance is an automated system built into all commercial planes. These “near misses” aren’t actually that close. Go look up TCAS and you’ll see what margins they work with.
The GOP aide said that because Republicans remain unified in their opposition to Washington’s prospective leadership, “his nomination is on life support.”
About a nomination made by Biden last year. Without a majority he can’t force it through.
Nominations just go through the senate, not the house of representatives. Democrats DO hold a majority in the senate.
I don’t want to let Republicans off the hook – they are obstructionists and government abolitionists, and this is primarily due to Ted Cruz’s opposition – but no, this is happening entirely under a Democratic held chamber.
I just want to point out how common this is, btw: Democrats plead for votes to get control over government, and then when they get it, somehow they still always find a way to insist that they can’t do anything because they just don’t have enough control. Even when they’re in charge, the media and the party advance the narrative that they’re not REALLY in charge.
Since they’re a little less totalitarian than GOP they don’t force everybody to vote with the party as aggressively. When the majority is narrow it like now that means Biden can’t force it through if even just 1 or 2 people aren’t on board.
And then you can look at the track record of the specific senators who won’t go along. The party leadership would have to push alternative candidates to get them voted out to make that happen. But do you want them to have that degree of centralized control?
I’m annoyed that this article doesn’t call out the people responsible for this whole ordeal. First: the FAA has been without a confirmed administrator for over a year.
https://apnews.com/article/faa-acting-administrator-biden-buttigieg-079bbc6c1abb13b404946c75a06ec311
Biden has not made nominating a qualified candidate a priority. The Senate needs to stop dicking around and approve or deny faster, because they’re the reason this stretches on. And Secretary of Transpiration Pete Buttigieg seems to only appear in the news when he’s apologizing after people ask where he is when a critical piece of transportation infrastructure suffers a catastrophic failure. Maybe he’s doing great things, but I’m not hearing about them, I’m just seeing signs of things not going well, and I’d like some reassurance.
I honestly thought that Transportation was going to be the thing that Biden and Buttigieg would be best qualified for, and I’ve been pretty baffled by the lack of management going on.
Collision avoidance is an automated system built into all commercial planes. These “near misses” aren’t actually that close. Go look up TCAS and you’ll see what margins they work with.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/22/politics/phil-washington-committee-vote/index.html
About a nomination made by Biden last year. Without a majority he can’t force it through.
Nominations just go through the senate, not the house of representatives. Democrats DO hold a majority in the senate.
I don’t want to let Republicans off the hook – they are obstructionists and government abolitionists, and this is primarily due to Ted Cruz’s opposition – but no, this is happening entirely under a Democratic held chamber.
I just want to point out how common this is, btw: Democrats plead for votes to get control over government, and then when they get it, somehow they still always find a way to insist that they can’t do anything because they just don’t have enough control. Even when they’re in charge, the media and the party advance the narrative that they’re not REALLY in charge.
Since they’re a little less totalitarian than GOP they don’t force everybody to vote with the party as aggressively. When the majority is narrow it like now that means Biden can’t force it through if even just 1 or 2 people aren’t on board.
And then you can look at the track record of the specific senators who won’t go along. The party leadership would have to push alternative candidates to get them voted out to make that happen. But do you want them to have that degree of centralized control?
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Sorry, I was typing with a toddler on my lap.