[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 112 (Wednesday, July 25, 2012)]
[House]
[Pages H5208-H5209]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         FLIGHT SAFETY AND PILOT TRAINING SAFETY REFORMS FROZEN

  (Ms. HOCHUL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. HOCHUL. Madam Speaker, on February 12, 2009, Flight 3407 crashed 
into a house in my district, killing all

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the passengers and an individual in his home. Out of that devastation, 
there was a spirit that actually united this Congress in enacting 
flight safety and pilot training rules that would have prevented the 
crash. The families never gave up and are eagerly awaiting the final 
implementation of those potentially life-saving rules.
  Sounds like a happy ending, doesn't it? And yet this week, because 
the House Rules Committee refused to allow my amendment to protect 
those specific rules, we are at risk of losing all those hard-fought, 
bipartisan safety reforms.
  With the so-called ``Regulatory Freeze Act,'' these reforms would 
simply die. Some who voted for them in the past now call them job 
killing. I call them people saving.
  Listen, I know we need to end overburdensome regulations on small 
business and farmers--I get it. But there's a commonsense way to do it. 
But to freeze all government regulations--all of them--regardless of 
the health and safety of our citizens is over the top even for this 
town. This only proves that Washington is broken and we need to fix it. 
This country deserves a better Congress.

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