And restore it and keep it seamless. Okay. Well thank you. I only have half a minute remaining. Miss gilligan i think i will just submit a question on the record for you about the Contract Tower Program and stress that the senate and house continue to strongly support the faa Contract Tower Program on a bipartisan basis and request you to comment on the record about any recommendations faa may have for reauthorization bill to ensure that this program is enhanced and protected. Thank you. Thank you, senator. I think certainly after our hearing last week, its important. I look forward to the answer to senator wickers question. Thank you. And now id like to call on senator klobuchar. Thank you very much, madam chair. A lot of interest in the hearing p. M. Im pre hearing. Im pretending those are lines of people trying to get in you just heard. I want to welcome members of the families. Weve worked with you especially on the bill on pilot fatigue and captain sullenberger, i thought i would
House continue to strongly support the faa Contract Tower Program on a bipartisan basis and request you to comment on the record about any recommendation recommendations faa may have for reauthorization bill to insure that this program is enhanced and protected. Thank you. Madam chair. Thank you, senator wicker. I think certainly after our hearing last week, its important, many members of the committee share the support for the Contract Tower Program so i look forward to the answer to senator wickers question. Thank you. Now i would like to call on senator klobuchar. Thank you very much. A lot of interest in the hearing. Im pretending those are lines of people trying to get in that you just heard. Thank you so much, and i also wanted to welcome the colgan flight people who are here today. Members of the families. We worked with you, especially on the bill on pilot fatigue. And captain sullenberger, i want to thank you for your continued attention to improving the fatigue standards, and
current rules with an opportunity for eight hours of interrupted sleep and at least 30 consecutive hours of time off per week. something else, regardless of how far they ve commuted on their own, pilots will be required to state they are fit to fly, a statement that veteran pilot john cox welcomes. jet airplanes move very quickly. a successful pilot must always be ahead of the airplane. when you re fatigued, that s harder to do. reporter: the airline industry initially opposed an early draft of the rules but says it supports changes that are science based and will improve safety. it s the families of the buffalo crash victims getting the credit. beverly eckerd, a 9/11 widow died in the crash. her sister was in washington. i think our efforts really went a long way to pushing this through, not just for ourselves, but for everyone who flies and in the memory of all those people who died. that was nbc s tom costello
including the 2012 republican nomination starting to look a whole lot more like the real world where people stop being polite and start being real. jon huntsman gives us via david letterman one more reason to believe he s still got a shot to win the nomination. let s get to the news. there s a new level of attacks in the republican race for president as two of the top contenders train their fire almost exclusively on each other. mitt romney is defending negative television advertisement against newt gingrich while questioning whether the former speaker will be able to handle the scrutiny of a general election. i know the speaker wants to say we shouldn t have negativity, if you can t handle the heat in this little kitchen, the heat that s going to come from obama s hell s kitchen is going to be a lot hotter. we have to show as a republican party and a candidate we can stand up from the barrage that will come from the obama world. what do you have in response to that, co
cram session for this thursday, december 22nd. there is a lot going on today including the 2012 republican nomination starting to look a whole lot more like the real world where people stop being polite and start being real. jon huntsman gives us via david letterman one more reason to believe he s still got a shot to win the nomination. let s get to the news. there s a new level of attacks in the republican race for president as two of the top contenders train their fire almost exclusively on each other. mitt romney is defending negative television advertisement against newt gingrich while questioning whether the former speaker will be able to handle the scrutiny of a general election. i know the speaker wants to say we shouldn t have negativity, if you can t handle the heat in this little kitchen, the heat that s going to come from obama s hell s kitchen is going to be a lot hotter. we have to show as a republican party and a candidate we can stand up from the barrage th