Senate Commerce Committee leaders vowed Monday to secure enactment of legislation to improve flight safety at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, and they said an appropriations measure next month could be a vehicle.
Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and ranking member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., want Congress to delete a provision in the fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act that they say would undermine safety at Reagan National airport, known as DCA.
They also want Congress to clear a bipartisan aviation safety bill, known as the ROTOR Act, which would require all aircraft near civilian airports to signal in real time their location to one another and to air traffic controllers.
