House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Democratic Caucus

 

Subcommittee on Aviation

Honorable Jerry F. Costello, Illinois, Ranking Democratic Member

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Membership

Jerry F. Costello, Illinois Ellen O. Tauscher, California Michael E. Capuano, Massachusetts
Leonard L. Boswell, Iowa Bill Pascrell, Jr., New Jersey Anthony D. Weiner, New York
Peter A. DeFazio, Oregon Tim Holden, Pennsylvania Ben Chandler, Kentucky
Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington, DC Shelley Berkley, Nevada Russ Carnahan, Missouri
Corrine Brown, Florida Jim Matheson, Utah John T. Salazar, Colorado
Eddie Bernice Johnson, Texas Michael M. Honda, California Nick J. Rahall, II, West Virginia
Juanita Millender-McDonald, California Rick Larsen, Washington Bob Filner, California
    James L. Oberstar, Minnesota (ex officio)

Current Issues

 

8/30/06 - Oberstar, Costello ask DOT-OIG if ATC rules were violated at Lexington

8/15/06 - Oberstar: DOT Backing Off Ownership Rule Change Deadline

8/10/06 - Oberstar Reacts to London Terrorist Plot

7/28/06 - Oberstar Urges TSA to Promptly Implement GAO Recommendations

7/21/06 - T&I Aviation Big Four Press FAA on Congestion Relief

6/22/06 - Four Members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee have sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta asking him to seek legislative action if he wants to change long-standing restrictions on control of U.S. airlines by foreign investors.

6/13/06 - Keep U.S. Airlines Under U.S. Control

6/13/06 - Oberstar, LoBiondo, Poe to hold NEWS CONFERENCE on airline ownership rules

6/6/06 - Dear Colleagues on H.R. 5449

5/31/06 - Oberstar Asks Mineta to Include State Department Comments in Foreign Ownership SNPRM Docket

5/31/06 - Oberstar Objects to AIP Priority for Airports Using Private Screeners, Refutes Mica Request

5/19/06 - Drake Joins House T&I Democratic Staff

5/9/06 - Rep. Oberstar testified today before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation hearing on foreign ownership of US airlines.

5/5/06 - House Members Ask Appropriators to Fully Fund Airport Improvement Program

5/1/06 - Oberstar, Costello Question FAA Regarding Airspace Plans

4/13/06 - Reject the Bush Administration's Short-Sighted FY2007 Proposal to Cut Almost $1 Billion from the Airport Improvement Program (AIP)

3/17/06 - Bipartisan House Coalition Asks Appropriators to Save Air Service to Small Communities

3/1/06 - The Administration's FY2007 Budget Reneges on a 30-year Federal Commitment to Ensure Air Service to Small and Rural Communities and Undermines Our National Aviation System

2/14/06 - Oberstar Addresses International Aviation Club

1/24/06 - Oberstar statement on the resignation of DOT-IG Kenneth Mead

12/15/05 - Oberstar, LoBiondo Introduce Bill to Hold Off Proposed Change in Airline Ownership Rules

2/12/05 - Congressman Oberstar today sent the attached letter to Secretary Mineta asking that DOT make public briefing material it has supplied to European officials regarding interpretation of a proposed rule change on foreign ownership of US airlines

11/18/05 - Letter to DOT on Foreign Ownership of US Airlines

10/25/05 - GAO: FAA Needs to Fully Implement Inspection System for 99 Non-Legacy Carriers

In response to an inquiry from Rep. James Oberstar, DHS Acting Inspector General Richard Skinner has backed away from his statement before a Senate committee that airport screeners are performing no better now than pre-9/11, calling his statement an "inadvertent error."

Transportation and Infrastructure Democrats Introduce Bill to Improve Airport Security Screening Technology

Air Travel Security Improving

Oberstar and Costello Letter to FAA

Commercial Space Flight

 

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Giles Giovinazzi, Senior Counsel

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