Members Announced for the US House T&I Committee’s Subcommittee on Aviation

This 22 January, the US House of Representative’s Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Sam Graves (R-Missouri) and Ranking Member Rick Larsen (D-Washington) announced the rosters of the Committee’s six subcommittees, including Aviation.

The Aviation subcommittee is important to CAT's editorial and event programs. Along with other committee and subcommittees on Capitol Hill, it has the “power of the purse strings” on federal budgets and legislation impacting the US commercial aviation sector. Additionally, the Aviation Subcommittee and its US Senate counterpart are typically the first wickets through which the presidential administration’s annual budget passes for review.

In recent years, the Aviation subcommittee has typically been bipartisan, putting the US aviation community’s interests at the forefront as they debate legislation and budgets.

The Aviation subcommittee will have a full plate of legislative challenges of interest to CAT during this session of Congress. In one instance, the FAA continues to recruit and train aspiring individuals to fill its air traffic controller ranks, and will require continued funding and support from the Trump administration and Congress. Elsewhere, debate is certain to emerge in Congress on maintaining or changing the current US 1500-hour pilot training rule.

CAT will follow and comment on budget and other legislative matters emerging on Capitol Hill of importance to the US aviation community training enterprise.