Aerospace Monitoring

The Senate Commerce Committee today approved by voice vote a comprehensive FAA reauthorization bill that would improve aircraft certification and reform third-class medical requirements, but leaves out the controversial air traffic control privatization measure that has stalled the House bill. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), the ranking Democrat on the Commerce Committee, noted the Senate panel “started with the premise that we would work together and focus on areas of agreement and refrain from the…