Senate Commerce Hearing To Focus on FAA Nomination
Senate Commerce Committee set to review the nomination of Phil Washington to become the next FAA administrator.
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The Senate Commerce Committee has scheduled a hearing tomorrow on the nomination of Phillip Washington to be the next FAA administrator. The hearing—which will be livestreamed at 10 a.m.—comes not quite two months after President Joe Biden re-upped Washington’s nomination for the top FAA post and eight months after the White House first nominated him for the position.

Since the Senate did not act on it last year, the Biden Administration had to renew the nomination once the 118th Congress convened. However, the nomination has taken new urgency following the outage of the FAA notam system in January and high-profile near-collision events that have occurred in recent weeks.

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