Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell pressed Congress to remove Section 373 from the National Defense Authorization Act because the provision would permit military aircraft to obtain waivers to stop broadcasting locations via Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast, a change critics link to the midair collision that killed 67 people over Washington.They held a joint news conference with victims' family members and said they will seek to attach the Rotorcraft Operations Transparency and Oversight Reform Act, ROTOR Act, to the next funding bill if leaders cannot reverse the language without delaying other priorities.Supporters of
Section 373 say it requires the Department of Defense to coordinate with the Department of Transportation, but safety officials, airlines, unions and families of the victims warn the last-minute insertion would undermine safeguards put in place after investigators identified hundreds of near misses near Reagan National Airport.