babbitt. we'll look forward to that opportunity. mr. cove develop, thank you very much. you can press the red button. >> mr. chairman, madam chairman, ranging member hutchison and thune. members of the subcommittee. thank you for inviting me on the timely hearing about the faa air-traffic control system. recent incidents including high-profile operational errors underscore the need for i am approached oversight the system. and managing the nation's controller workforce. over the past decade we in dot's office of inspector general repeatedly raised concerns about faa's reliance on controllers to report operational errors and faa failure to uncover reporting inaccuracies. our audit and investigative work has shown some error reports were misclassified as nonevents while others were intentionally manipulated to cover up errors. faa's recent deployment of tarp, its automated reporting system for the terminal environment, should help reduce these weaknesses. however concerns remain about faa's effo

babbitt, the f.a.a. has recognized the issue of fatigue and the new staffing guidelines requiring two controllers in towers and nine-hour windows between shifts. are you able to quantify it on operational errors and run ways since they were implemented or is it too early. >> it is probably a little bit too early. we haven't seen -- part of the problem is these tower or whatever the facilities were, 27 hours that had single person manning -- the reason they had such low staffing, very little traffic operations at those hours. we would not expect there to be much in the way of operational errors. but it is too early to tell. >> i know there were a spade of reports within one time period about people falling asleep but there seems like there hasn't been in the last month or two since secretary lahood and others came out, do you have information on that? >> we instituted a number of changes. you missed our review. >> i know the changes. i just wondered if you had reports of others falling asleep? >> i called

i suspect he is sort of the bruce babbitt of the press cycle, the press' darling. the guy we have not talked about all these weeks is sitting back very happy, and that is tom pawlenty. he is raising more money and getting his organization. the more we talk about anybody else, the more he benefits. >> historically, the republican race, standard and it's within the two factions, the moderate candidate versus the conservative candidate. a republican pollster has developed this theory, and it is valid. john mccain and giuliani competed to be the moderate candidate in 2008, and mike huckabee and others -- huckabee and mccain who basically became the survivors. this is a test of whether in fact there is a moderate wing and an independent wing is still there. jon huntsman is laying claim to that. mitch daniels will also compete for that if he comes into the race. the real action and intensity and energy right that seems to be exclusively on the conservative side, and that is the case, it will be a problem for democrats from 1972 when all the action and energy was on the l

babbitt a question about 2006. the four moc -- former faa administrator informed me that air-traffic control needed a least 35 controllers to move traffic safely. i do not know if that was intended to be performance people the right now there are only 26 certified controllers and the tower with eight trainees. what is the plan to keep the towers fully staffed? >> i am not sure. i do not have the numbers available. we try to staff to traffic. traffic flows -- you may want to increase staff -- staffing someplace. sometimes traffic falls off. a good example would have been cincinnati where a merger forestay moving traffic to other areas so traffic in another city went up a dramatically. traffic in cincinnati went down. it takes us a while to migrate people back and forth. my understanding today, and i can give you the absolute numbers we have, we think we have a floor of around 28 and a ceiling of 38. >> let me ask you this. what have we to do to provide the numbers we need for new or rigid -- newark, when 75% of the

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more analysis on this with richard babbitt from russia profile magazine here in the studio thanks for joining us here now ukraine suffered terribly at the hands of the nazis and helped the feet of so what's going on here oh ukraine is a nation should probably know. there was a part of your green that had been part of the soviet union before nine hundred thirty nine there was another part of ukraine that had never been even inside the russian empire and that was merged with the soviet union by stalin in that you can learn so it's a very complicated issue because for the first time ukraine united under the soviet union at the same time a ward of ukraine suffered in the hands of soviet secret police so it's a very tricky. question but certainly the nards is deeply ukrainians something terrible something large was done what the so even the so is secret police to do so what can be done to help stop prevents or prevent the spread of this kind of nationalism invest in ukraine although i think for the beginning there to do it all their western media should change because the sentimental way t

ultimately babbitts from russia profile michael things says the roots of nationalism in the previous ukrainian leadership if either of you should of course idealized for a long time by westerners until in the end of his rule he suddenly made a very controversial not controversial extremist figure all of ukrainian nationalist movement has suddenly made him a hero of ukraine in ukraine for a long time the state was not against this and now all the state is more or less neutral as you have seen what happened in the war obviously the local authorities did not want to get on or otherwise they would not allow me or not just walk of cemetary. more coming your way this hour in just a few minutes. humanitarian concerns are not on the agenda. over sixty refugees are left to die of thirst and hunger aboard a boat from libya find out the alliance is response to accusations it was to play. a suicide bomber has exploded as it arrives in the center of market capital of russia's republic of dagestan killing at least one that policeman well another policeman was hospitalized with multiple injuries. o

this is an hour and 40 minutes. >> we are joined by witnesses, randy babbitt, faa administrator, andovel, the president of the air traffic controllers association. -- research center at washington state university. thank you for being here. today the aviation committee is holding an oversight hearing on air-traffic control safety. i know my colleague will be here soon but i want to recognize him and his new role as ranking member for the subcommittee. i look forward to working with them. we are going to work on the recent incidents where traffic controllers fell asleep during nine shifts and the increase of operational errors by air- traffic controllers. this year there have been a number of incidents sleeping on duty. i am concerned about these incidences. some are examples of unprofessional behavior on the part of an international -- their actions are unacceptable. they do have a responsibility to come to work arrested. some have used those to try to tarnish the reputation of a dedicated group of men and women who work to ensure our eight -- aerospace is the safest. they monitor 35

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bruce babbitt, 1996 and 2000. the republicans do all this -- they're the ones who issued these leases. those that hold the leases have been successfully challenged to include price slesh holds in lease agreements. the department of interior has lost in federal dict court, the appellate court an the united states supreme court. an now we're going to interfere with a court decision? if this amendment passes, those holding such leases would be required to renegotiate a contract, the lease terms of d.o.i., to have new thresholds. bill clinton would turn over -- he's not in his grave, i can't say that the secretary doesn't have the authority to include price thresholds on these leases and forcing companies to renegotiate the leases would be a violation of contract law and would be challenged in court. mr. chairman, this is an amendment that just comes out of where, i don't know. it's a time to demagogue on the floor about medicare. there's nothing to do with oil leases. it has nothing to do with the so-called tax break