{"id":21813,"date":"2026-04-24T12:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-democrats-call-for-investigation-into-faa-chief-stock-divestiture\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:22:08","slug":"senate-democrats-call-for-investigation-into-faa-chief-stock-divestiture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-democrats-call-for-investigation-into-faa-chief-stock-divestiture\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats call for investigation into FAA chief stock divestiture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats on Thursday called on a federal watchdog to investigate Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Bryan Bedford&#8217;s stock divestment, accusing him of making profits that &#8220;violated his ethics agreement.&#8221; Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) called on Department of Transportation Deputy Inspector General Mitch Behm to look into evidence&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5846668-senate-democrats-faa-ethics-probe\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats on Thursday called on a federal watchdog to investigate Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Bryan Bedford&#8217;s stock divestment, accusing him of making profits that &#8220;violated his ethics agreement.&#8221; Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) called on Department of Transportation Deputy Inspector General Mitch Behm to look into evidence&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}