October 3, 2023<\/p>\n
Media contact: National Consumers League \u2013 Melody Merin, melodym@nclnet.org, 202-207-2831<\/p>\n
Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, the National Consumers League (NCL) urged the U.S. Senate to swiftly confirm President Biden\u2019s nominee for Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Michael G. Whitaker. Despite a growing number of problems under the FAA\u2019s jurisdiction\u2014including an alarming number of <\/span>near-misses<\/span><\/a>\u00a0involving passenger aircraft\u2014the Administration has lacked a Senate-confirmed Administrator for eighteen\u00a0months.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The following statement is attributable to NCL Chief Executive Officer Sally Greenberg:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe FAA has been without a permanent administrator for too long. Without strong leadership, the agency will struggle to fulfill critical consumer protection mandates, including Congress\u2019s 2018 directive that the agency set minimum seat sizes on airplanes. The Senate should act to restore the full strength of the Administration and confirm Mr. Whitaker as FAA Administrator.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n About the National Consumers League (NCL)<\/strong> Today, the National Consumers League (NCL) urged the U.S. Senate to swiftly confirm President Biden\u2019s nominee for Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Michael G. Whitaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[14,315,458],"tags":[378,412],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27088,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26258\/revisions\/27088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America\u2019s pioneer consumer organization.\u00a0 Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad.\u00a0 For more information, visit nclnet.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"