The confirmation hearing for Phillip Washington as the new head of the Federal Aviation Administration was contentious, with Republicans criticizing him as unqualified due to his relatively thin aviation experience and Democrats praising him as a skilled leader of large transportation bureaucracies. If confirmed, Washington would take over an agency dealing with safety concerns including several recent close calls between planes, understaffing that has contributed to flight delays, and the breakdown of a pilot-alert system that briefly stopped flights nationwide in January.

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