Biden expected to nominate former airline executive for top FAA job

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Whitaker was a longtime executive at United Airlines, working as a senior vice president with responsibility for regulations.
40% : "GOP senators also argued that Washington was not a "civilian," as required under federal law, although a top Department of Transportation lawyer noted that Washington had retired from the military more than two decades earlier and "fits the plain and widely understood meaning" of the word "civilian.
20% : During a Senate hearing on Washington's nomination in March, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and other Republicans sought to tie Washington to local political issues in California, where he headed the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and criticized his focus on diversity among public transportation officials and contractors.

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