song rive-- hudson rivern captain sully sullenberger was able to real it in because he had no power. that's seagulls, feathers and web feet and a beak. you can imagine with the metal and plastic of a drone being sucked into a jet engine. and so do we need any more reminders? so what we did was have in this bill a pilot program to test and develop technologies to intercept or shut down the drones when they are near airports. remember also the tragedy in brussels and remember the downing of an airliner, a russian airliner in egypt because somebody was on the inside and snuck a bomb onto the

sully sullenberger stood with boxer in washington. he's a former us airways captain that made the landing on the hudson river back in 2009. today he earned -- urge passage of the safe skies act that would get cargo pilots the same flight time limits and minimum rest. the airline pilots already have. >> they are operating at the worst part in our body's normal natural circadian rhythms. alertness is at its lowest. >> we have one set of pilots suffering from fatigue and it is dangerous. >> shipping companies including fedex and ups are against the legislation. they say there pilots fly flavor legs and have longer layovers and passenger pilots. >>> new crash tests show many pickup trucks might not be as tough as they seem. a group of large 2016 pickups were tested. >> julie watts has the surprising results. >> reporter: the results are not great i can tell you that. overall the large full-size extended cab pickup trucks are not performing as well as they would like. this type of crash accounts for a quarter of all vehicle fatalities. cli

sully sullenberger made the merge landing on the hudson -- emergency landing in 2009.he urged passage of the safe skies act. it would give them the safety -- sullenberger says fatigue can be lethal. >> fatigue is fatigue, and one perverse sense, the cargo companies are correct, that they are different. but the way they're different is in a very bad way. it's because they have the worst working conditions. >> they rags -- rationalize it, if there's one cash every couple years, our insurance will cover it. >> shipping companies are against the legislation, they say their pilots fly floor legs. >>> a tourist nearly lost his head, literally, taking pictures when he came close to hitting a landing plane. he ducked as the aircraft flew inches near him. he turned around, and snapped more pictures of the plane after it passed. >>> and a little more perspective on the airport. take a look. this shows how plane approaching the airport have to pass over a roadway, and then descend on the runway there. it's a short landing, used by charter flights, and a tricky one for pilots. >>>

later this morning i'll meet with captain sully sullenberger. i think you remember him. he was the hero of the hudson. he was the one who miraculously landed u.s. airways flight 1549 in the hudson river on january 15, 2009. because of his incredible skill, he saved the lives of all 155 passengers and crew. so when it comes to safety -- safety -- in terms of our pilots being able to think clearly and not be suffering from fatigue, who could be better than captain sullenberger? so i'm going to stand with him and i'm going to explain the issue that he and i are fighting for. i first got into this issue, which is safety standards for all pilots, in 2009 when colgan airlines flight 3407 crashed into a home near buffalo, new york, killing 50 people. after that tragic crash, senator snowe and i wrote hrerlgs that that -- wrote legislation that updated pilot fatigue regulations. they had been written originally in the 1940's and clearly there was a lot of scientific research on what happens when you have a lack of rest. and we needed to see a new rule. so because of the efforts

think there's some things that we can add to this bill, including this which is, by the way, sully sullenberg -- captain sullenberg did an event yesterday with senator boxer and myself. he is the one that made that miraculous landing in new york and he stood with used and a bunch of -- and he stood with us and a bunchts of pilots and says there's absolutely no difference between flying cargo and people. it's just a different kind of car goavmen--cargo. i look forward to working on this and urge my colleagues to support this long-term f.a.a. re-thorks avoid the uncertainty of further short-term extensions and i hope weal we will be able to have a vote on this very important safety amendment. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. mr. portman: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. portman: mr. president, i rise once again today to talk about the urgency of us passing the comprehensive addiction and recovery act in the house of representatives. this is legislation that passed the senate with a 94-1 vote about a month ago. in fact, the senator from minnesota, who

>> in the united states, rail transit ranks among the safest modes of transportation but as sully sullenberger warned, of the commercial aviation industry, it's important not to define safety as to absence of -- as the absence of accidents. we have been through a very safe period, it's easy to think it's because we're doing everything right but it may be that simply we are doing some things right but not everything and we simply can't relax. unfortunately, a series of rail accidents in our nation's capital reminds us of sully's statement and how it applies to mass transit. over the past seven years, nine passengers and seven employees have been killed on the washington metrorail system and many more have been injured. riders have lost confidence in metro and rebuilding trust will require far more from wmata that reminding everyone that driving is more dangerous than riding. of course, congress must hold itself accountable for creating a weak federal transit administration. according to the railroad counterpart, f.t.a. lax the authority, resources and experience necessary to make sure state ove

song rive-- hudson rivern captain sully sullenberger was able to real it in because he had no power. that's seagulls, feathers and web feet and a beak. you can imagine with the metal and plastic of a drone being sucked into a jet engine. and so do we need any more reminders? so what we did was have in this bill a pilot program to test and develop technologies to intercept or shut down the drones when they are near airports. remember also the tragedy in brussels and remember the downing of an airliner, a russian airliner in egypt because somebody was on the inside and snuck a bomb onto the airplane. well, there are parts in this bill that will help reduce the insider threat the terrorists have previously exploited, including the soft targets out where you get the cues at the t.s.a. lines or the cue-ups at the ticket liners. this will improve the background checks and security screenings for airport workers and to prevent hackers from potentially gaining control of an airplane. this bill requires that the f.a.a. develop standards on how aircraft manufacturers can keep flight control sy

>> in the united states, rail transit ranks among the safest modes of transportation but as sully sullenberger warned, of the commercial aviation industry, it's important not to define safety as to absence of accidents. we have been through a very safe period, it's easy to think it's because we're doing everything right but it may be that simply we are doing some things right but not everything and we simply can't relax. unfortunately, a series of rail accidents in our nation's capital reminds us of sully's statement and how it applies to mass transit. over the past seven years, nine passengers and seven employees have been killed on the washington metrorail system and many more have been injured. riders have lost confidence in metro and rebuilding trust will require far more from wmata that reminding everyone that driving is more dangerous than riding. of course, congress must hold itself accountable for creating a weak federal transit administration. according to the railroad counterpart, f.t.a. lax the authority, resources and experience necessary to make sure state oversight agencies effec

again sully sullenberger is quoted. let me be very direct. fatigue is a killer. it's a ruthless indies crime nant killer that our industry and our regulators have allowed to continue killing for way too long. mr. president, this isn't partisan. i have a democratic administration who did the wrong thing on this. and i have a republican senate that's not giving me a vote on this. come on. when people die in an airplane crash, you don't know if they're democrats or republicans. we just know we cry our hearts out for the families. and i'm going to show you again the crashed plane. this is what happens when there is fatigue. this is what can happen. there have been many of these crashes, mr. president, because the pilots are flying on five hours' sleep. so all i'm asking for is a vote. give us a vote. if you want to vote it down, vote it down. you'll be judged. that's all. that's your problem, not mine. and i want to praise senator klobuchar who is my coauthor of this amendment. and she was very, very effective in her comments, both in the committee and at the presser

states rail transit ranks among the safest modes of transportation, however, as our named pilot sully sullenberger wisely warned, the -- of the commercial aviation industry, and i quote, it's important not to define safety as the absence of accidents. where we've been through a very safe period it's easy to think it's because we're doing everything right but it may be that simply we are doing some things right but not everything and we simply can't relax. unfortunately a series of rail accidents in our nation's capital reminds us of sully's statement and how it also a ploo is to mass transit. over the past seven years nine passengers and seven employees have been killed on the washington metrorail system and many more have been injured. riders have lost confidence in metro and rebuilding trust will require far more than ramada -- from ramada than simply reminding passengers that driving is far more dangerous than riding. of course, congress must also hold itself accountable for creating a weak federal transit administration. compared to fta dod counterpart the federal railroad administration and f

listen to what sully sullenberger said, the hero of flight 1549. "you wouldn't want your surgeon operating on you after only five hours of sleep, or your passenger pilot flying the airplane after only five hours of sleep, and you certainly wouldn't want a cargo pilot flying a large plane over your house at 3:00 a.m. on five hours of sleep trying to find the airport and land." so the question around here is, who do we listen to? do we listen to the companies that are afraid it's going to cost them a few dollars? do we thereon the pilots? -- do we listen to the pilots? do we listen to sully sullenberger, who is telling us fatigue kills, it's a killer? that's what he said at the press conference the other day. i want to ask unanimous consent to place into the record a number of articles that appeared in the news. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. boxer: thank you so much, mr. president. here it is -- this one in "the hill" quoting captain sullenberger. "fatigue is a killer. it is time to right this wrong. it's time to fix this rule." and

so i'll close with a quote from sully sullenberger. i think we all remember sully. why don't we look at -- before we show that, let's remind people who he was, because we have another chart that shows it. here it is. thank you, denise. sully sullenberger was the hero of the hudson. we remember how he landed his plane in the hudson river, how he saved all the passengers on that plane and his crew. he is so famous now, mr. president, he goes all over the world. and he came to my press conference that i had with senator klobuchar because she and i are working on this bill as well as senator cantwell, on this amendment. and his words were inspiring because he didn't kid around. he said, fatigue is a killer. fatigue is a killer. now, you don't have to say any more. if you know fatigue is a killer, then don't say passenger pilots get -- can fly nine hours but cargo pilots, 16. so here's what sullenberger said when we first introduced our legislation, the safe skies act. he said, "you couldn't want your surgeon operating on you after only five hours of sleep, or your passe

remember captain sully sullenberger, when a flock of geese suddenly gets sucked into the engines and all power is lost? fortunately, he had the hudson river that he could belly it in, after he had taken off from laguardia. you put a drone with plastic and metal, let that get sucked into the engine, and you have a catastrophic failure. you don't want to put your passengers in that kind of operation. and, therefore, education is one thing, but there's always going to be the young person that doesn't know about this. and so there's got to be -- and we don't know the answer. we know we can take over the operation of the drone and send it over here and have it set down, have it land. the technology is there, how to apply that technology so that we avoid this aircraft collision in an increasing use of drones which are so helpful for so many commercial purposes, not even to speak of the pure pleasure of flying a drone around as we are seeing has become exceptionally popular. well, we address that in the bill by doing the appropriate direction to the f.a.a. to start coming up with the soluti

remember captain sully sullenberger who became a national hero when upon takeoff and ascending out of laguardia encountered a flock of sea gulls which were sucked into his jet engines? now, that's flesh and blood and feathers and webbed feet. you can imagine what would happen if a drone on as ent or on descent of a passenger -- on as sent or on descent of a passenger airliner sucks in the plastic and metal of a drone. there are lives at risk and there might not be a hudson river that captain sullenberger could belly it in in the hudson river and save all the lives of his passengers. last year alone, the f.a.a. recorded over a thousand drone sightings in airports and aircraft. well, that's unsent, and we must do everything that we can to protect the flying public from these dangers posed by drones. and so this bill creates a pilot program to test various technologies to keep drones away from airports and it requires the f.a.a. to work with nasa to test and develop a drone traffic management system. we have seen the technology already available that can suddenly capture a drone as it go