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Maria Cantwell: “The military obviously doesn't want to do this, but we, we…”

Featuring: Maria Cantwell, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Washington

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Sens. Cruz and Cantwell Hold Press Conference on Stripping Section 373 from the NDAA

Published | Video Starts at 33:01

And obviously the standard that everybody's agreed to this adbs out and in issue has been around for more than a decade, literally was put into the previous law saying get this implemented and people have pushed it off. So The military obviously doesn't want to do this, but we, we have to have a resolution and we need an aggressive FAA to force them and we need a Congress to force them into a resolution. Let me say also, the ROTOR act is explicitly supported by the Trump administration. When the ROTOR act was first introduced, I stood at this podium and next to me was Secretary Duffy, the Secretary of Transportation, explicitly supporting the legislation. (33:01–33:14)

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Asserts that the military is resistant to implementing ADS-B standards and requires FAA and Congressional intervention.

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