babbitt for coming. i understand that the faa has some discretion to amend the atp license requirements on training hours and that this is currently under review. sir, do you believe that classroom hours should count toward the 1500 hour requirement, and does the faa have a position on how much time pilots should have in the cockpit of an aircraft? if you don't believe 1500 hours of cockpit time is required, do you believe that there is a minimum number of hours that should be required? >> well, let me tell you that we are, you know, based on some direction from the last congress and this subcommittee, we are in the process in executive review right now of proposed new rule and that proposed new rule was based upon the formation of aviation rule making committee which was included a variety of sources and inputs. they have put together several of the points that they wanted to see and thought were appropriate. we have that along and being consistent with the direction and legislation that was here have p

administrator babbitt, thank you so much. i want to thank the faa and the pilot and the crew and the flight folks that all helped all of us get here safely this week. i felt it today with a windy day up there. i was thankful for the well trained pilot and a difficult airport maybe it to land in, reagan airport there, but glad to be here safely and thankful for the hard work you're doing. i do recognize as others, that this coming saturday is the two-year anniversary of the crash of 3407. independent of having passed safety legislation, do you personally feel it's safer today to get on a regional airline than it would have been two years ago when the crash of 3407 crashed? >> well, we certainly have implemented and got an lot of response. we've implemented a number of safety changes, put out bulletins, advisory and got a lot of compliance. those were areas that i think needed addressing and i'm appreciative of the compliance we got from those. so if those safety programs -- and, you know, themselves, brought us to a higher lev

babbitt for coming. i understand that the faa has some discretion to amend the atp license requirements on training hours and that this is currently under review. sir, do you believe that classroom hours should count toward the 1500 hour requirement, and does the faa have a position on how much time pilots should have in the cockpit of an aircraft? if you don't believe 1500 hours of cockpit time is required, do you believe that there is a minimum number of hours that should be required? >> well, let me tell you that we are, you know, based on some direction from the last congress and this subcommittee, we are in the process in executive review right now of proposed new rule and that proposed new rule was based upon the formation of aviation rule making committee which was included a variety of sources and inputs. they have put together several of the points that they wanted to see and thought were appropriate. we have that along and being consistent with the direction and legislation that was here have p

so babbitt and udall were good friends and are still good friends. so i look up to them. >> both udall and babbitt were great supporters of the act of 1906 the ability to create national monments that theodore roosevelt established. i've read a little bit of press action coming out of the tea party movement. are you willing to embrace and make sure that the antiquities act stays on the books and make sure there's not an overturning of it? >> i think absolutely. when you look at over 100 years of exercised authority, president obama and this administration are not going to be in a position where they want to give up that authority. having said that, i do think that one of the things we are doing so differently under the american great outdoors is we are listening to what communitiesen want us to do. one of the chapped chanters was in the report, we will reach out to the american public to listen to communities across the united states to find out which of those areas they believe are the ones that appropriate for monument designation under the antiqui

bruce babbitt and stewart udall were both good friends. are still good friends in the case of bruce. so i look up to them. >> both udall and babbitt were great supporters of the antiquities act of 1906. meaning this ability to create national monuments that theodore roosevelt had established. are you, i have read a little bit of press action coming out of tea party movement. are you willing to embrace and make sure that the antiquities act stays on the books and make sure there is not an overturning of the antiquities act? >> the answer to that is absolutely. i think when you looked at 100 years of exercise of executive authority, president obama and this administration are going to not in the position to give up that authority. having said that, i do think one of the things that we are doing, so differently into america's great outdoors, is that we are listening to what chunts want us to do. and so, as one of the chapters within the america's great outdoors report indicates we will reach out to the american public and listen to communitie

babbitt is a great relief this morning to be able to say at this stage we still have no reports of casualties, serious injury, or any fatalities. >> inside the crowded evacuation center, this japanese woman gave birth to a baby girl after three hours of labor. i have the confidence, a british midwife was on hand to help with the delivery -- by happy coincidence, a british midwife was on hand to help with the delivery. >> will come to australia. >> thank you very much. >> it could have been so much worse. australia feared a hurricane katrina-scale disaster, but somehow it survived cyclone yasi without any loss of life. >>> the world's longest-running trade dispute has ended. after the european parliament approved a bill to cut import tariffs on the american bananas. it began in the early 1990's. but american producers said that he was breaking trade laws by importing bananas duty-free from africa, the caribbean, and the pacific while charging terps on their effort. the eu said were trying to protect small producers. >>> in his first interview since protests began in egypt tenders ago, presiden

you're open to humanities university babbitt to follow isn't your russian students. learning. you have come to moscow so this time to discuss a number of pretty important issues such as the situation in the trance and he steered the good and hard about situation so and so forth is there much difference between the approach to these issues in moscow in the us in brussels i would say seoul. brussels is. the birth of a very divided you know. moscow has very own interests. as well but i think some interests regarding the stability regarding. not inflaming more situation like. i think it's the same in all three mentioned points that's what i. would say but i'm quite satisfied with my discussions with my counterpart mr lavrov. because we found some common i would say points there we could walk of course but they say that. like minded in one hundred percent it would be stupid but i must say one thing but i see very real prospect and real hope to make small i'm talking about very small changes in transnistria conflict and be agreed on some actions i mean on some events and i mean goal

of all of course of the voidable going on carol how come i'm not going to the groom's going over babbitts right now taking these guys out there for a guitarist actually specifically mention low interest rates as not being the primary factor in the collapse because there are a lot more basically fried and incompetence and failure to regulate so they say they agree with sarkozy the commission that investigated the crisis castle wide net of blame faulting to let ministrations the federal reserve. and other regulators for permitting a calamitous caution shoddy mortgage lending excessive packaging and sale of loans to investors and risky bets and securities backed by the loans they said quote the greatest tragedy would be to accept the refrain that no one could have seen this coming and it's not and could have been done if we accept this notion it will happen again remember who two people two very well respected americans warren buffett and alan greenspan both said we couldn't have seen this coming it's a complete lie many people reported on the thing that is coming and the fuel that goes into

. >> both udall and babbitt for supporters of the act in 1906 meaning keeping the ability to create national monuments. there's a regret of press action coming out of the tea party movement. are you willing to embrace and make sure that the antiquity facts stays on the books and makes sure there's not an overturning of the antiquity fact in >> the answer to that is absolutely. i think when you look 100 years of exercised executive thor, president obama and this administration and i will be in a position where they want to give up that authority, and now, having said that, i do think that one of the things that we are doing so differently in the america's great outdoors is we are listening to what communities want us to do. as one the exarpts within -- exarpts within the report is we will reach out to listen to communities across the united states to find out which of those areas they believe are the ones that are appropriate for monument designation under the antiquities ac and we hear from governors and congressional delegations where there is a unity of wanting to have these very special p

administrator randy babbitt similarly recently warned that lasers can -- and i quote -- "damage a pilot's eyes or cause temporary blindness." indeed pilots have described the need to hand control of their aircraft to a copilot as a result of one of these incidents. it goes without saying that such a threat to a pilot's sight, particularly during the critical phases of takeoff and landing, poses an unacceptable risk to the traveling public, to our pilots and to citizens on the ground. for this reason, secretary of transportation ray lahood recently described laser incidents as a serious safety issue. the problem, mr. president, is growing. according to a recent report by the federal aviation administration, 2,836 pilots reported that they were targeted with lasers in 2010. nearly double the number in 2009. in other words, every day eight pilots and the passengers that they fly are put at risk in the manner i described. the problem affects airports of all sizes across the country. at t.f. green airport, for instance, in my home state of rhode island, there were 12 such reported incidents ju

i thank the >>> now the administrator for the federal aviation administration randolph babbitt. the senate has been debating the faa reauthorization bill for the past two weeks. the debate continues in the senate on the faa bill on monday republican congressman tom petri chairs the house transportation subcommittee hearing. >> i would like to welcome all members to the first hearing of the 112 congress.

national spirit, and he's working with a great group of people including the vice president bruce babbittdan glickman and many others. he predicted more land in the lower 48 states and other president before him and putting the five national parks in the national monument. i think that he took care to protect existing land as well as about a rule to protect the ruthless forests that protect the development of the over 60 million acres of national forests, an achievement of the subsequent administration really did all it could to try to screw up, but all the way they tried mightily, the heart of that is preserved under the secretaries leadership will move forward. i think of those of those that serve in that administration tried to focus on what teddy roosevelt called bill long look ahead and i think secretary salazar in the work he's doing it the part that exemplifies the spirit. president clinton might and was also one of the first president to make the case environmental protection doesn't diminish but supports and enhances our economic goals as a country. he argued protect the in the p