National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy urged Congress on Monday to reconcile competing aviation-safety bills, saying the board had supplied a roadmap after the January 2025 collision near Washington that killed 67 people and that lawmakers now needed to act. [1]

The House passed its bill 396-10 in April, while the Senate unanimously passed the ROTOR Act in December; that Senate text later missed fast-track House approval by one vote, so Congress completed two substantial votes without producing one enacted set of requirements. [1]

Reuters' stalled-bill frame is accurate about the impasse but too simple about the work already done, because the missing stage is reconciliation between rival texts rather than the absence of legislation, hearings or chamber consent.

The House measure would require collision-prevention technology on most military aircraft by 2031, and the NTSB says ADS-B would have prevented the fatal collision, but a proposed requirement is not installed equipment, compliance, enforcement or a measured improvement in safety. [1]

With no verified X post recovered, neither outrage at congressional failure nor celebration of bipartisan votes supplies the operative receipt: Homendy made a request, both chambers passed different bills, talks continued, and no common text had become law by the evidence cutoff.

-- CHARLES ASHFORD, London