mark baker, president and ceo of the aircraft owners' and pilots association. mr. baker? >> >> thank you chairman ayotte ranking member cantwell, members of the subcommittee. thank you for inviting me here today. i'm mark baker, president and ceo of the aircraft owners and pilots association, a not for profit individual organizationing representing over 350,000 general aviation aircraft owners and pilots. my testimony today will make three key points, first that general aviation is a national asset struggling partly as a result of poorly presentative regulatory environment. second, general aviation safety has improved significantly and can improve further if industry and government work together. third, that the general aviation is a critical juncture where regulatory changes medical reform grass-roots efforts can strengthen this important industry in 2013, general ay united nations, or ga produced $219 billion in economic output and supported 1.1 million american jobs. but ga has experienced a significant decline in recent years, losing an average of 6,000 pilots per yea

mark baker president and ceo of the aircraft owners and pilots' association. thank you for being here, i look forward to your testimony. and with that i would like to turn it over to my ranking member senator cantwell. >> thank you, chairman ayotte and the witnesses for being here today. i look forward to hearing your testimony. i would especially like to acknowledge the families and the victims of the colgan air flight 3407 who are with us here today. thank you for your consistent advocacy and tireless work on behalf of a safer aviation system. the faa has implemented a number of safety improvements in the last five years including pilot training, safety management systems, flight and duty time requirements and pilot professionalism initiatives. we have moved the ball forward on aviation safety but we can not be complaisant with the progress we've made. we've built on efforts from the past, leveraged science and data and technology to make aviation safer but we have more work to do. one area of work remains is in the development of a comprehensive pilot recor

great senators like mike mansfield of montana, howard baker of tennessee mark hatfield republican fromat from maine. bob dole, republican from kansas , nancy kassebaum, republican from kansas. barbara mikulski, democrat from maryland. this is a place where friendships were made. i will never forget, hubert humphrey was on his last leg dying of cancer, going through intense chemotherapy. he died shortly thereafter. very goldwater walk up to him and them embracing. both crying. the entire united states senate rising to its feet for sustained , emotional applause. barry goldwater and hubert humphrey. as a consequence the senate functioned as it was designed. the nation in the midst of the turmoil in those early years that i served arrived at consensus. all of america was better for it. all those i mentioned, including former and current senators are with us today. they understood and understand no one has a corner on the truth. no one's perspective is the only perspective. each of them understood as teddy that our actions in this chamber must ultimately reflect the decent saying, the hono

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baker for the "new york times" in washington. we'll be right back. stay with us. >> rose: this month marks years since pope francis was elected as the pontiff. he's emerged as an extremely popular figure with many catholics for changing the church homosexuality, unwed couples. garry wills considers the perspc0vh]t in his new book the future of the catholic church with pope francis. he's a professor at north western university and i'm pleased to him back at this table. welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: you like this pope. >> i like him a lot of. although he's disappointing many of us liberals which i think is his job. what's nice about him is that he learned so much as a provincial of the jesuits and archbishop you. what made me like him he said i was wrong i was a terrible provincial because i didn't hold people together by consultation. he said i was immature they put me in too soon and that was crazy. >> rose: look at himself with a certain -- >> yes. and he knows that he has to listen to other people, not just dictate to other people. what i like about him is that he is disappointing libe

mark. at&t direct we don't know yet. baker hughes halliburton, i don't know. maybe, maybe not., ftc, still haven't heard anything. even others. >> there's a lot of antitrust. >> too big? no? i think that they got a little nervous, they blessed this and i think, kind of like they got a lot of heat for it. >> a lot to keep an eye on. >> they created a company called constellation brands by giving them madello. rob sands conservative, they gave low guidance. constellation -- >> if you bought the stock when they did the deal? >> yes. >> oh. >> one of the largest sellers of corona and modella in brooklyns. i have 140 tequilas. they bought a good tequila. smart acquisition. i thought they'd buy george clooney's. he's having too much fun. this is not done. those who sell here are going to wish they bought it back. this company, rob sands, cash machine. the growth here i thought this was an interesting extrapolation. klaus kleinfeld talking about 1% to 2% beer can growth offsetting soda 2% to 3% but not totally. put this together if constellation brands is going mid single digit, okay

baker from "the new york times." we will be right back. stay with us. ♪ charlie: this month markswo years since pope francis was elected as the 266th roman catholic pontiff. he has emerged as an extremely popular figure for many catholics who credit him with reinvigorating the church. he has drawn criticism from conservatives for his positions on issues like homosexuality single motherhood and unwed couples. garry wills considers both perspectives in his new book "the future of the catholic church with pope francis." he is a pulitzer prize-winning author and a professor at northwestern university. i'm pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. garry: thank you. charlie: you like this pope. garry: i like him a lot. although, he is disappointing many of us liberals which i think is his job. what is nice about him is that he learned so much as a provincial of the jesuits in argentina then as the archbishop of buenos aires. the first thing that made me like him was when he said i was wrong. i was a terrible provincial because i did not hold people together by consultation. he sa

it could mark another business for tesla built on the back of technology originally designed for electric cars. tom: let's look forward. the bank of japan with changes. what mr. bakeryo. -- mr. abe. your twitter answers. where would you put real estate right now? this is a lot of fun. a wonderful bloomberg commodities panel. it was winner take all. now, the commodity world -- iron or down 50% since early 2014. she knows -- she holds one of the toughest undergraduate degrees known to mankind come a degree in chemistry. >> totally unrelated. i have no idea. it's been a long-winded journey. absolutely interested in what's going on in the commodity markets. massive dislocation. tom: the idea of the commodity boom oil -- is brazil done? is australia done? >> there is lots of skepticism about what happened. the demand story has been eroded. brazil, south africa, a lot of importers, russia -- exporters. is that demand story going to extend to developed markets? what we've seen in the u.s. with gdp yesterday and also around the story of the u.k. and other european countries showing lackluster growth. olivia: how closely is the commodity story tied to the dollar? there has

for governor the governor baker, merrill watch, members of congress, past and present and pretty much every elected official in massachusetts. [laughter] it is an honor to markr and boston police officer john moynihan, who was moynihan who was shot in line of duty on friday night. [applause] [applause] i mention him because last year at the white house the vice president and i had the chance to honor ofc. moynihan as one of america's top counts for his bravery in the line of duty, for risking his life to save a fellow officer. thanks to the heroes of boston medical center, i am told officer moynihan is awake and talking, talking and we wish him a full and speedy recovery i also want to single out someone who very much wanted to be here just as he was every day for nearly 25 years as he represented this commonwealth alongside ted in the senate secretary of state john kerry. [applause] we be if you go john is in europe with our allies and partners leading the negotiations with iran and the world's community and standing up for principle that ted and his brother pres. kennedy, brother president kennedy, believed and so strongly. let us never negotiate out of fe

there's no martin without ella baker, without stokley carmichael, without so many of the -- diane mark, we can go on -- diane nash, we can go on and on. >> talk about the santa clausification with respect to african-americans. because i think part of what you're describing is a kind of historical amnesia for the fact that dr. king was not always well loved within the black community. and you cite a pretty remarkel -- remarkable poll from late in his life that says 55% of african-americans did not support dr. king on vietnam and ending poverty. and i think it was the ending poverty that caught me off guard. >> yes, yes. no, it's true, and it's very sad. you've got 72% of americans across the board, all color, and 55% of black people disapproving of martin. you remember what whitney young said to brother martin in terms of you're setting back the black freedom movement, and he said oh, what you said won't get you a foothold in the kingdom of truth. typical intra-struggle against black, within black leadership over where to go. see martin was saying corporations are not going to dictate w