Huerta said FAA employees would be consulted in the decision on where to locate operations.
And I think about Dolores Huerta, reading about her when I was starting off as an organizer.
Our FAA Administrator, Michael Huerta, has been talking to Paul Rinaldi, the head of the controllers union.
"We took the action we took (to ground the planes) because we saw a hazard, " Huerta said.
Boeing has completed 20 separate tests of the new system, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta told Congress earlier this week.
Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America and a lifelong advocate for civil rights, workers, and women.
Ms. DOLORES HUERTA (Cofounder, United Farm Workers): You know, they're going to say, well, these are all undocumented people marching.
Dolores Huerta, one of the cofounders of the United Farm workers, was here to celebrate her birthday and also to march.
According to an internal FAA document we've obtained, on January 14 Administrator Michael Huerta notified employees that the FAA would soon award bonuses.
Which would be the one who, along with Dolores Huerta and some other activists, organized the California farm workers in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Mr. Huerta was only confirmed as FAA Administrator in early January, but he had been serving as the agency's acting head since late 2011.
In a joint statement on Thursday, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta reiterated that they are determined to fix the problem.
If Mr. Huerta and his colleagues in FAA management have made a "superior contribution, " it is to the cause of that old reliable, bureaucratic self-interest.
Hersman consulted with FAA Acting Administrator Michael Huerta and requested the Transportation Safety Board of Canada investigate the incident, she said in a statement Tuesday.
Huerta declined to say when FAA might lift the grounding order.
The CEO has met with FAA chief Michael Huerta, and Mr. McNerney is running daily meetings on the status of the investigations and being updated regularly.
Asked last week whether he would consider grounding the jets, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said there was "nothing in the data" that suggested the Dreamliner was unsafe.
At that time, LaHood and the head of the Federal Aviation Administration, Michael Huerta, declared the plane fit to fly despite a battery fire in one plane.
While officials have previously mentioned the respiratory infection and described Chavez's health situation as delicate, Thursday night's statement was notably different from past government announcements, Huerta said.
Not only does she have Villaraigosa's backing, but she also recently won the endorsement of Latino icon Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez.
Huerta explained that the second incident occurred during a flight.
Agency staff began receiving their expanded paychecks in February, a mere two months before the flight delays that Mr. Huerta would claim were the unavoidable result of the federal budget sequester.
Last week at a Senate hearing Mr. Huerta acknowledged under questioning that, in fact, his agency does have some discretion to prioritize and move funds to higher priorities from lower ones.
Any scientific investigation into Chavez's death, Huerta said, could be complicated by the fact that Chavez's body has already been embalmed so that it can be placed on display in a Caracas museum.
Five days later, following another battery mishap that led to an emergency landing of a 787 in Japan, LaHood and Huerta ordered United, the lone U.S. carrier with 787s, to ground the planes.
"We will work with the airports and the operators to ensure the procedures are in place to maintain the high level of safety at non-towered airports, " FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said in a statement.
Mr. Huerta and the FAA appear to have ignored the directive, shovelled out the bonus money, and then turned a budget cut of roughly 4% into a furlough of air-traffic controllers on 10% of their scheduled workdays.
What changed between Jan. 11 and FAA's issuance of a grounding order on Jan. 16 was that a second battery failure occurred on an All Nippon Airways 787 while the airliner was in flight, said Huerta, who joined LaHood at the luncheon.
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