[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12182-12183]
[From the U.S. 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 the passengers and an 
individual in his

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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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