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FILE PHOTO: Bryan Bedford, president and main enforcement serviceman of Republic Airways Holdings Inc., speaks astatine the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) 2011 normal successful Denver, Colorado, U.S., connected Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011.
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The Senate Commerce Committee connected Wednesday voted 15 to 13 to o.k. the information of Republic Airways CEO Bryan Bedford to caput the Federal Aviation Administration.
All Republicans voted successful favor, portion Democrats voted against aft immoderate cited Bedford's refusal to perpetrate to uphold the 1,500-hour grooming regularisation for co-pilots.
The Trump medication wants astatine slightest $20 cardinal to wholly overhaul the FAA's aerial postulation power strategy aft a mid-air collision connected January 29 betwixt a U.S. Army chopper and an American Airlines pitchy adjacent Washington Reagan National Airport. All 67 radical aboard the craft died.
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