USCTA Alert

Deadline Today: Please Contact Your Lawmakers ASAP!

May 20, 2025

Please contact your lawmakers today and ask them to sign letters requesting full funding for the FAA Contract Tower Program in the Fiscal Year 2026 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill.

House Letter: Reps. Julia Brownley (D-CA) and Dusty Johnson (R-SD) are sending a letter to the House Appropriations Committee that requests full funding for the FCT program in FY26. Their Dear Colleague may be viewed here, and their funding request letter may be viewed here.

The deadline for the House letter has been extended to today at 5:00 p.m. EDT. Please contact your representative today if he or she is not on the list below.

Senate Letter: On the other side of the Capitol, Senators Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) are sending a letter to Senate Appropriations Committee that also requests full funding for the FCT program in FY26. A copy of the letter may be viewed here.

The deadline for the Senate letter is also today at 5:00 p.m. EDT. Please contact your senators today if they are not on the list below

Urgent Request: Please contact your elected officials ASAP and ask them to sign the Brownley-Johnson letter or the Wicker-Blumenthal letter.

House Letter Signatures

Brownley, Julia
Brown, Shontel
Conaway, Herbert
DeSaulnier, Mark
Gonzalez, Vicente
Gottheimer, Josh
Hayes, Jahana
Johnson, Dusty
Keating, William
King-Hinds, Kimberlyn
Larsen, Rick
Lawler, Michael
Loudermilk, Barry
McGovern, James
Smith, Adam
Soto, Darren
Stanton, Greg
Subramanyam, Suhas
Thompson, Glenn
Vargas, Juan

Senate Letter Signatures

Alsobrooks, Angela D.
Baldwin, Tammy
Bennet, Michael
Cantwell, Maria
Cortez Masto, Catherine
Cramer, Kevin
Crapo, Mike
Duckworth, Tammy
Durbin, Richard
Hassan, Maggie
Hirono, Mazie
Kelly, Mark
Klobuchar, Amy
Lankford, James
Markey, Edward J.
Marshall, Roger
Murphy, Christopher
Padilla, Alex
Risch, James
Rosen, Jacklyn
Schatz, Brian
Shaheen, Jeanne
Smith, Tina
Sullivan, Dan
Van Hollen, Chris
Warner, Mark R.
Warnock, Raphael G.
Wicker, Roger
Wyden, Ron