• Revealing Airline Safety Secrets – NASA spent more than $11 million dollars on a survey of airline pilots to identify aviation safety problems. The survey found that runway incidents and mechanical failures occurred at a much higher rate than government estimates. But NASA withheld the survey results because it would undermine public confidence in the airlines and hurt airline profits.
• Ending a $63 Million Boondoggle for Taxpayers – Congress spent more than $63 million in earmarks on an experimental aircraft that has never flown more than a few feet and that the Pentagon doesn’t want or need. Supporters of the flawed aircraft failed this year to win further earmarks for the plane after a hearing held by Chairman Miller.

For more information on these hearings and the work of the subcommittee, go to:

http://science.house.gov/subcommittee/oversight.aspx