{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://cleaver.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-cleaver-supports-house-passage-bill-reauthorize-faa-strengthen", "Rep. Cleaver Supports House Passage of Bill to Reauthorize the FAA, Strengthen Aviation Workforce, Protect Airline Consumers", "2023-07-20", "2023", "2023-07", "Democrat", "House", "MO", "Emanuel Cleaver", "C001061", "cleaver.house.gov", "cleaver", "https://cleaver.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "(Washington, D.C.) \u2013 Today, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) voted in favor of the Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for five years. The bipartisan bill will maintain America\u2019s gold standard of leadership in safety and aerospace innovation, strengthen and diversify the U.S. aviation workforce, improve consumer protections and accessibility, and make groundbreaking investments in sustainability and resiliency.\n\n\u201cSince the Wright Brothers first took flight more than a century ago, America has led the world when it comes to aviation safety and innovation\u2014and the Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act will continue that legacy for years to come,\u201d said Congressman Cleaver. \u201cNot only does this bill provide investments that will help create good-paying jobs and strengthen our aviation workforce in Missouri\u2019s Fifth Congressional District, but it also takes steps to protect consumers by ensuring families can sit together at no cost and travelers are reimbursed if a flight is delayed or cancelled. I was proud to support this bipartisan bill, and I encourage my colleagues in the Senate send it to the President\u2019s desk.\u201d\n\nThe Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act will uphold public safety and maintain American leadership in aviation by:\n\nMaintaining America\u2019s gold standard in aviation safety, ensuring that America\u2019s aviation system remains the safest in the world by expanding ground surveillance at airports to help prevent runway incursions, updating evacuation standards for commercial planes, and creating a task force on preventing assaults against flight crews.\n\nStrengthening and diversifying the U.S. aviation workforce by tripling the FAA\u2019s workforce development funding to $45 million a year, expanding our talent pipeline of pilots, maintenance technicians, and aviation manufacturing workers, and funding efforts to recruit and retain people from underrepresented communities in the aviation industry.\n\nExpanding Consumer Protections and Accessibility by requiring airlines to pay for reimbursements for hotels and meal costs if there are mass cancellations and delays, allowing young families to sit together at no extra cost, and directing airlines to create a roadmap to reduce damage to wheelchairs and improve airline personnel training to better assist these passengers.\n\nPromoting Environmental Sustainability and Resilience to accelerate the green energy transition by investing for the first time in federal airport funding for airport environmental and noise programs\u2014which will help equip airports to continue serving communities amid the impacts of climate change.\n\nOfficial text of the Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act is available here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T00:18:03Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://cleaver.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-cleaver-supports-house-passage-bill-reauthorize-faa-strengthen"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6074958257377148, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}