Quiet Rockland - No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYJohn J. Tormey III, Esq.
P.O. Box 918
Pearl River, NY 10965 USA
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November 9, 2009
Honorable United States Senator Charles E. (Chuck) Schumer (NY)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
SH-313 Hart Senate Office Building
United States Senate, United States Capitol
Washington, D.C. 20510-3201 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Schumer:
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill. Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
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Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYJohn J. Tormey III, Esq.
P.O. Box 918
Pearl River, NY 10965 USA
(845) 735-9691 (phone)
(845) 735-0476 (fax)
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November 9, 2009
Honorable United States Senator Max Baucus (MT)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
511 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
The United States Senate, The United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20510 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Baucus:
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill.
Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYcc: ALL UNITED STATES SENATORS ON THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, ALL OTHER U.S. SENATORS, ALL U.S. REPRESENTATIVES, THE GAO, OTHER FEDERAL OFFICIALS, STATE OFFICIALS, COUNTY OFFICIALS, TOWN OFFICIALS, LAWYERS, CITIZENS, BUSINESSES, GROUPS, NEWS MEDIA, LAW ENFORCEMENT, CLERGY, EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS, OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES, OTHER U.S.-FRIENDLY COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD, EMBASSIES, WORLD MEDIA, AND USDOT, FAA, AND NASA PERSO
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYJohn J. Tormey III, Esq.
P.O. Box 918
Pearl River, NY 10965 USA
(845) 735-9691 (phone)
(845) 735-0476 (fax)
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November 9, 2009
Honorable United States Senator Jim Bunning (KY)
United States Senate Committee On Finance
316 Hart Senate Office Building
The United States Senate, The United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20510 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Bunning:
I hope you are well since I last saw you at the baseball event in New Jersey. I also hope you had time to catch a few games of the World Series on TV or in person this year.
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill.
Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
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November 9, 2009
Honorable Senator Maria Cantwell (WA)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
511 Dirksen Senate Office Building
The United States Senate, The United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20510 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Cantwell:
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill.
Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYcc: ALL UNITED STATES SENATORS ON THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, ALL OTHER U.S. SENATORS, ALL U.S. REPRESENTATIVES, THE GAO, OTHER FEDERAL OFFICIALS, STATE OFFICIALS, COUNTY OFFICIALS, TOWN OFFICIALS, LAWYERS, CITIZENS, BUSINESSES, GROUPS, NEWS MEDIA, LAW ENFORCEMENT, CLERGY, EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS, OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES, OTHER U.S.-FRIENDLY COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD, EMBASSIES, WORLD MEDIA, AND USDOT, FAA, AND NASA PERSONNEL
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYJohn J. Tormey III, Esq.
P.O. Box 918
Pearl River, NY 10965 USA
(845) 735-9691 (phone)
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November 9, 2009
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Honorable United States Senator Tom Carper (DE)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
513 Hart Building
The United States Senate, The United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20510 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Carper:
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill.
Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
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November 9, 2009
Honorable United Senator Charles E. (Chuck) Grassley (IA)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
135 Hart Senate Office Building United States Senate, United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20510 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Grassley:
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill.
Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYcc:
VIA FAX: 1-319-363-7179, and U.S. MAIL
Honorable United Senator Charles E. (Chuck) Grassley (R - IA)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
135 Hart Senate Office Building 150 1st Avenue NE, Suite 325
Cedar Rapids, IA 52401 USA
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United States Senate Committee on Finance
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Des Moines, IA 50309 USA
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Honorable United Senator Charles E. (Chuck) Grassley (R - IA)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
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Waterloo, IA 50701 USA
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Quiet Rockland - No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYJohn J. Tormey III, Esq.
P.O. Box 918
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November 9, 2009
Honorable Senator Orrin G. Hatch (UT)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
104 Hart Senate Office Building
United States Senate, United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20510 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Hatch:
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill.
Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYcc:
VIA FAX: 1-801-524-4379, and U.S. MAIL
Honorable Senator Orrin G. Hatch (UT)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
8402 Federal Building - 125 South State Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84138 USA
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Honorable Senator Orrin G. Hatch (UT)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
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Provo, UT 84601 USA
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Honorable Senator Orrin G. Hatch (UT)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
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St. George, UT 84770 USA
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Honorable Senator Orrin G. Hatch (UT)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
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Ogden, UT 84401 USA
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Honorable Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R - UT)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
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Cedar City, UT 84720 USA
Quiet Rockland - No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYJohn J. Tormey III, Esq.
P.O. Box 918
Pearl River, NY 10965 USA
(845) 735-9691 (phone)
(845) 735-0476 (fax)
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November 9, 2009
Honorable United States Senator John F. Kerry (MA)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
304 Russell Senate Office Building
The United States Senate, The United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20510 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Kerry:
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill.
Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYcc:
ALL UNITED STATES SENATORS ON THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, ALL OTHER U.S. SENATORS, ALL U.S. REPRESENTATIVES, THE GAO, OTHER FEDERAL OFFICIALS, STATE OFFICIALS, COUNTY OFFICIALS, TOWN OFFICIALS, LAWYERS, CITIZENS, BUSINESSES, GROUPS, NEWS MEDIA, LAW ENFORCEMENT, CLERGY, EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS, OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES, OTHER U.S.-FRIENDLY COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD, EMBASSIES, WORLD MEDIA, AND USDOT, FAA, AND NASA PERSONNEL
Quiet Rockland - No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYJohn J. Tormey III, Esq.
P.O. Box 918
Pearl River, NY 10965 USA
(845) 735-9691 (phone)
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November 9, 2009
Honorable Senator Jon Kyl (AZ)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
730 Hart Senate Office Building
United States Senate, United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20510 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Kyl:
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill.
Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYcc:
VIA FAX: 1-602-957-6838, and U.S. MAIL
Honorable Senator Jon Kyl (AZ)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
2200 East Camelback, Suite 120
Phoenix, Arizona 85016-3455 USA
VIA FAX: 1-520-797-3232, and U.S. MAIL
Honorable Senator Jon Kyl (AZ)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
6840 North Oracle Road, Suite 150
Tucson, Arizona 85704 USA
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Quiet Rockland - No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYJohn J. Tormey III, Esq.
P.O. Box 918
Pearl River, NY 10965 USA
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URGENT: PLEASE REJECT THE CURRENT FAA REAUTHORIZATION ACT
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November 9, 2009
Honorable Senator Olympia J. Snowe (ME)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
154 Russell Senate Office Building
The United States Senate, The United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20510 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Snowe:
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill. Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYcc:
VIA FAX: 1-207-782-1438, and U.S. MAIL
Honorable Senator Olympia J. Snowe (ME)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
Two Great Falls Plaza, Suite 7B
Auburn, ME 04210 USA
VIA FAX: 1-207-622-7295, and U.S. MAIL
Honorable Senator Olympia J. Snowe (ME)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
Edmund S. Muskie Federal Building
40 Western Avenue, Room 408C
Augusta, ME 04330 USA
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Honorable Senator Olympia J. Snowe (ME)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
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Bangor, ME 04401 USA
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Honorable Senator Olympia J. Snowe (ME)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
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Honorable Senator Olympia J. Snowe (ME)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
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Portland, ME 04101 USA
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Honorable Senator Olympia J. Snowe (ME)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
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Presque Isle, ME 04769
ALL UNITED STATES SENATORS ON THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, ALL OTHER U.S. SENATORS, ALL U.S. REPRESENTATIVES, THE GAO, OTHER FEDERAL OFFICIALS, STATE OFFICIALS, COUNTY OFFICIALS, TOWN OFFICIALS, LAWYERS, CITIZENS, BUSINESSES, GROUPS, NEWS MEDIA, LAW ENFORCEMENT, CLERGY, EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS, OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES, OTHER U.S.-FRIENDLY COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD, EMBASSIES, WORLD MEDIA, AND USDOT, FAA, AND NASA PERSONNEL
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P.O. Box 918
Pearl River, NY 10965 USA
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November 9, 2009
Honorable United States Senator Debbie Stabenow
United States Senate Committee on Finance
133 Hart Senate Office Building
United States Senate, United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20510 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Stabenow:
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill. Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYcc:
VIA FAX: 1-517-203-1778, and U.S. MAIL
Honorable United States Senator Debbie Stabenow
United States Senate Committee on Finance
221 W. Lake Lansing Road, Suite 100
East Lansing, MI 48823 USA
VIA FAX: 1-313-961-7566, and U.S. MAIL
Honorable United States Senator Debbie Stabenow
United States Senate Committee on Finance
243 W. Congress Suite 550
Detroit, MI 48226 USA
VIA FAX: 1-616-975-5764, and U.S. MAIL
Honorable United States Senator Debbie Stabenow
United States Senate Committee on Finance
3280 E. Beltline Court NE, Suite 400
Grand Rapids, MI 49525 USA
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Honorable United States Senator Debbie Stabenow
United States Senate Committee on Finance
432 N. Saginaw St, Suite 301
Flint, MI 48502 USA
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Honorable United States Senator Debbie Stabenow
United States Senate Committee on Finance
1901 W. Ridge
Marquette, MI 49855 USA
VIA FAX: 1-231-929-1250, and U.S. MAIL
Honorable United States Senator Debbie Stabenow
United States Senate Committee on Finance
3335 S. Airport Road West, Suite 6B
Traverse City, MI 49684 USA
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Quiet Rockland - No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYJohn J. Tormey III, Esq.
P.O. Box 918
Pearl River, NY 10965 USA
(845) 735-9691 (phone)
URGENT: PLEASE REJECT THE CURRENT FAA REAUTHORIZATION ACT
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November 9, 2009
Honorable United States Senator Ron Wyden (OR)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
223 Dirksen Senate Office Building
The United States Senate, The United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20510-3703 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Wyden:
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill. Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYcc:
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Quiet Rockland - No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYJohn J. Tormey III, Esq.
P.O. Box 918
Pearl River, NY 10965 USA
(845) 735-9691 (phone)
(845) 735-0476 (fax)
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November 9, 2009
Honorable Senator John D. Rockefeller, IV (WV)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
The United States Senate, The United States Capitol
531 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Rockefeller:
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill.
Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYcc:
VIA FAX: 1-304-253-2578, and U.S. MAIL
Honorable Senator John D. Rockefeller, IV (WV)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
220 North Kanawha Street, Suite 1
Beckley, WV 25801-4514 USA
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Honorable Senator John D. Rockefeller, IV (WV)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
405 Capitol Street, Suite 508
Charleston, WV 25301-1749 USA
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Honorable Senator John D. Rockefeller, IV (WV)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
118 Adams Street, Suite 301
Fairmont, WV 26554-2841 USA
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Honorable Senator John D. Rockefeller, IV (WV)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
217 West King Street, Suite 307
Martinsburg, WV 25401-3211 USA
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Quiet Rockland - No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYJohn J. Tormey III, Esq.
P.O. Box 918
Pearl River, NY 10965 USA
(845) 735-9691 (phone)
(845) 735-0476 (fax)
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November 9, 2009
Honorable United States Senator Robert Menendez
United States Senate Committee on Finance
528 Senate Hart Office Building
United States Senate, United States Capitol
Washington, D.C. 20510 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Menendez:
Rockland County, Tom Sullivan and I are so grateful to you and your excellent staff for all your leadership on the fight against FAA NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign, over the past several years. You’re a hero of ours.
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill.
Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYcc:
VIA FAX: 1-856-546-1526, and U.S. MAIL
Honorable United States Senator Robert Menendez
United States Senate Committee on Finance
208 White Horse Pike, Suite 18
Barrington New Jersey 08007 USA
VIA FAX: 1-973-645-0502, and U.S. MAIL
Honorable United States Senator Robert Menendez
United States Senate Committee on Finance
One Gateway Center, Suite 1100
Newark, New Jersey 07102 USA
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Quiet Rockland - No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYJohn J. Tormey III, Esq.
P.O. Box 918
Pearl River, NY 10965 USA
(845) 735-9691 (phone)
(845) 735-0476 (fax)
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November 9, 2009
Honorable United States Senator Blanche L. Lincoln
United States Senate Committee on Finance
355 Dirksen Senate Office Building
The United States Senate, The United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20510 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Lincoln:
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill.
Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYcc:
VIA FAX: 1-501-375-7064, and U.S. MAIL
Honorable United States Senator Blanche L. Lincoln
United States Senate Committee on Finance
912 West Fourth Street
Little Rock, AR 72201 USA
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Quiet Rockland - No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYJohn J. Tormey III, Esq.
P.O. Box 918
Pearl River, NY 10965 USA
(845) 735-9691 (phone)
(845) 735-0476 (fax)
jtormey@optonline.netURGENT: PLEASE REJECT THE CURRENT FAA REAUTHORIZATION ACT
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November 9, 2009
Honorable United States Senator Mike Enzi (WY)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
379A Senate Russell Office Building
The United States Senate, The United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20510 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Enzi:
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill.
Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYcc:
VIA FAX: 1-307-682-6501, and U.S. MAIL
Honorable United States Senator Mike Enzi (WY)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
400 S. Kendrick Avenue, Suite 303
Gillette, WY 82716 USA
VIA FAX: 1-307-772-2480, and U.S. MAIL
Honorable United States Senator Mike Enzi (WY)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
Federal Center, Suite 2007 - 2120 Capitol Avenue
Cheyenne, WY 82001 USA
VIA FAX: 1-307-527-9476, and U.S. MAIL
Honorable United States Senator Mike Enzi (WY)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
1285 Sheridan Avenue, Suite 210
Cody, WY 82414 USA
VIA FAX: 1-307-739-9520, and U.S. MAIL
Honorable United States Senator Mike Enzi (WY)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
1110 Maple Way, Suite G - Post Office Box 12470
Jackson, WY 83002 USA
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Honorable United States Senator Mike Enzi (WY)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
100 East B Street, Room 3201, P.O. Box 33201
Casper, WY 82602 USA
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Quiet Rockland - No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYJohn J. Tormey III, Esq.
P.O. Box 918
Pearl River, NY 10965 USA
(845) 735-9691 (phone)
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November 9, 2009
Honorable United States Senator John Ensign (NV)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
The United States Senate, The United States Capitol
119 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Ensign:
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFilefile=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill.
Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYcc: ALL UNITED STATES SENATORS ON THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, ALL OTHER U.S. SENATORS, ALL U.S. REPRESENTATIVES, THE GAO, OTHER FEDERAL OFFICIALS, STATE OFFICIALS, COUNTY OFFICIALS, TOWN OFFICIALS, LAWYERS, CITIZENS, BUSINESSES, GROUPS, NEWS MEDIA, LAW ENFORCEMENT, CLERGY, EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS, OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES, OTHER U.S.-FRIENDLY COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD, EMBASSIES, WORLD MEDIA, AND USDOT, FAA, AND NASA PERSONNEL
Quiet Rockland - No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYJohn J. Tormey III, Esq.
P.O. Box 918
Pearl River, NY 10965 USA
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November 9, 2009
Honorable United States Senator Mike Crapo (ID)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
239 Dirksen Senate Building
The United States Senate, The United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20510-3403 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Crapo:
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill.
Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
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Quiet Rockland - No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYJohn J. Tormey III, Esq.
P.O. Box 918
Pearl River, NY 10965 USA
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November 9, 2009
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Honorable United States Senator John Cornyn (R - TX)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
517 Hart Senate Office Building
United States Senate, United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20510-3403 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Cornyn:
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFilefile=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill.
Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYcc:
ALL UNITED STATES SENATORS ON THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, ALL OTHER U.S. SENATORS, ALL U.S. REPRESENTATIVES, THE GAO, OTHER FEDERAL OFFICIALS, STATE OFFICIALS, COUNTY OFFICIALS, TOWN OFFICIALS, LAWYERS, CITIZENS, BUSINESSES, GROUPS, NEWS MEDIA, LAW ENFORCEMENT, CLERGY, EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS, OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES, OTHER U.S.-FRIENDLY COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD, EMBASSIES, WORLD MEDIA, AND USDOT, FAA, AND NASA PERSONNEL
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYJohn J. Tormey III, Esq.
P.O. Box 918
Pearl River, NY 10965 USA
(845) 735-9691 (phone)
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jtormey@optonline.netURGENT: PLEASE REJECT THE CURRENT FAA REAUTHORIZATION ACT
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November 9, 2009
Honorable United States Senator Kent Conrad (ND)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
530 Hart Senate Office Building
The United States Senate, The United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20510-3403 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Conrad:
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill.
Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYcc:
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United States Senate Committee on Finance
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Minot, ND 58701 USA
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United States Senate Committee on Finance
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United States Senate Committee on Finance
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Quiet Rockland - No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYJohn J. Tormey III, Esq.
P.O. Box 918
Pearl River, NY 10965 USA
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November 9, 2009
Honorable Senator Bill Nelson (FL)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
716 Hart Senate Office Building
The United States Senate, The United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20510 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Nelson:
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill.
Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYcc:
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United States Senate Committee on Finance
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Quiet Rockland - No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYJohn J. Tormey III, Esq.
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November 9, 2009
Honorable United States Pat Roberts (KS)
United States Senate Committee on Finance
109 Hart Senate Office Building
The United States Senate, The United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20510-1605 USA
Dear Honorable Senator Roberts:
Today I ask you to please vote “NO” on the current FAA Reauthorization Act (“Bill”). This letter is written to you on behalf of all Quiet Rockland members, in solidarity with 47,000 residents of Orangetown NY, 300,000 residents of Rockland County NY, and over 30,000,000 Americans adversely affected by the FAA’s ill-conceived proposed “NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign”. Quiet Rockland opposes all sought fast-tracking and blank-check-financing of FAA mismanagement. We oppose the lobbyist aero-enablers who have come to expect unchecked profligate aviation spending to feather their own respective nests. We have no objection to bona fide technological improvements enhancing aviation safety. We fully support the NATCA refusal to ever again accept FAA-imposed “work rules” during any future collective bargaining impasse. But we categorically repudiate unchecked repeated cash infusions to a Tombstone Agency that currently acts like they don’t care if we live or die. Please say “NO” to FAA Reauthorization, Senator.
Quiet Rockland is a non-partisan group. We do not support, and we REJECT, the FAA Reauthorization Act as written. Any misguided “Yes” vote for this Bill as currently-constituted, will threaten to render Congress powerless over current and future FAA malfeasance and economic waste. The bad far outweighs the good in this Reauthorization Bill. I respectfully request that you as a Senator-Member of the Senate Finance Committee please closely examine the two (2) Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports on FAA and ARC. I ask that you do so before even considering any support of planned massive funding increases. Current monies should not be spent on inchoate-illusory NextGen. Current monies should not be spent on NextGen’s artificially-linked fatally-flawed component, the harmful FAA-proposed NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign. FAA continues to fail royally on these and its other initiatives, according to the new GAO audit and testimony and other available statistics and data:
http://gaonet.gov/products/GAO-10-188Thttp://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10188thigh.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10188t.pdfhttp://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=2557http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/data/pdfdocs/NextGen_RTCA_Testimony_Final_10-28-09.pdfThe above-linked GAO Reports serve as constructive notice to each of us as Americans of the bungled methodology of FAA’s multi-billion-dollar “projects”. At minimum, Congress must impose crafted amendments to the Bill preventing any recurrence of this now-documented gross FAA waste and mismanagement of the people’s money. FAA must address and fix its own bizarre entropic systems before obtaining any funding - much less anything resembling a blank-check from the Senate Finance Committee.
FAA needs to be given a time-out, and then a massive do-over. FAA cannot be allowed to continue operate multi-billion-dollar “projects” without cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, benchmarks, or any other meaningful accountability to citizens. That is NO WAY to run a federal agency integral to our economy much less responsible for aviation safety and the lives of innocent Americans. I trust that you agree, Senator.
It is imperative to the well-being of Americans that your United States Senate Committee On Finance vocally and forcefully votes a decisive thumbs-down “NO” in opposition to the current FAA Reauthorization Bill.
Thank you for your time and consideration, as always.
Respectfully,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland – No New Flights Over Rockland County, NYcc:
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