April 26, 2018

U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Representative,

You will soon consider H.R. 4, the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018. On behalf of the more than one million members and supporters of the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW), I urge you to support the following amendments to H.R. 4:

Rep. Paul Mitchell’s (R-Mich.) amendment to require the Inspector General of the Department of Transportation to study the potential impacts of a significantly delayed, significantly diminished, or completely failed delivery of the Next Generation Air Transportation System modernization initiative by the Federal Aviation Administration, including impacts to the air traffic control system and the national airspace system as a whole.

Rep. Steve King’s (R-Iowa) amendment to ensure that none of the funds authorized by the Act are used to implement, administer, or enforce the prevailing wage requirements of the antiquated Davis-Bacon Act.

Rep. Chuck Fleischmann’s (R-Tenn.) amendment to allow the Secretary to determine that if safety is not affected, highway specifications of a State may be used for airfield pavement construction and improvement at nonprimary airports with aircraft under 60,000 pounds.

Rep. Mark Meadow’s (R-N.C.) amendment to codify a directive of President Clinton’s 1993 Executive Order 12866, Section 1(b)(8), which stipulates that, whenever possible, any new standards promulgated by the FAA shall be performance-based standards providing an equal or higher level of safety.

Rep. Tom McClintock’s (R-Calif.) amendment to strike Section 451 of H.R. 4, which authorizes the Essential Air Service.

The amendment offered by Reps. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.), Rick Larsen (D-Wash.), Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), and Karen Bass (D-Calif.) to strike a provision in Section 703(b) of Title VII that proposes a contingency funding provision that would nullify the authorization for FAA’s environmental R&D programs entirely should appropriators decline to appropriate full funding to certain other unrelated programs.

All votes on these amendments will be among those considered in CCAGW’s 2018 Congressional Ratings.

Sincerely,

Tom Schatz

President, CCAGW

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