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There are 1,000 employees at the FAA nationwide making $187,000 or more/year. Here are the top 100

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There are 1,000 employees at the FAA nationwide making $187,000 or more per year. Here are the top 100. Devious Daniel Elwell

Devious Daniel Elwell, Federal ARROGANCE Administration (FAA) Acting Administrator, says his agency would have to hire 10,000 more workers and spend another $1.8 billion per year to match the number of airplanes certified for flight by its current system of delegating duties to aircraft makers.

https://www.federalpay.org/employees/agencies

The FAA has the second largest budget ($5.15 billion) among the 375 Federal Agencies. The AVERAGE pay among ALL 45,315 FAA employees is $114.072.52 (2017 numbers).

According to: https://www.federalpay.org/employees

https://www.federalpay.org/employees

There are 1,000 employees at the FAA nationwide making $187,000 or more per year. Here are the top 100.

1 Teri Lynn Bristol 2017 Prog Mgr DC $278,426 Teri.Bristol@faa.gov
2 John J. Hickey 2017 Prog Mgr DC $213,051 John.Hickey@faa.gov
3 John S. Duncan 2017 Prog Mgr DC $212,510 John.Duncan@faa.gov
4 Victoria Baecher Wassmer 2017 Prog Mgr DC $210,191 Victoria.Wassmer@faa.gov
5 Mark S. House 2017 Prog Mgr DC $210,062 Mark.House@faa.gov
6 Nathan S. Tash 2017 Prog Mgr DC $209,493 Nathan.Tash@faa.gov
7 Vaughn A. Turner 2017 Prog Mgr DC $209,306 Vaughn.Turner@faa.gov
8 Claude Manno 2017 Prog Mgr DC $208,908 Claude.Manno@faa.gov
9 George Cooke Nield 2017 Misc Adm Prog DC $208,349 George.Nield@faa.gov
10 Mamie K. Mallory 2017 Prog Mgr DC $206,656 Mamie.Mallory@faa.gov
11 Raymond Towles 2017 Prog Mgr DC $206,447 Raymond.Towles@faa.gov
12 Karlin Roth Toner 2017 Prog Mgr DC $205,024 Karlin.Toner@faa.gov
13 Lisbeth L. Mack 2017 Prog Mgr DC $203,942 Lisbeth.Mack@faa.gov
14 Christopher J. Rocheleau 2017 Prog Mgr DC $203,658 Christopher.Rocheleau@faa.gov
15 Jo Lea Tarrh 2017 Prog Mgr Texas $203,569 Jo.Tarrh@faa.gov
16 Michael J. Zenkovich 2017 Prog Mgr Texas $203,496 Michael.Zenkovich@faa.gov
17 David W. Hempe 2017 Prog Mgr DC $203,355 David.Hempe@faa.gov
18 Angela H. Stubblefield 2017 Prog Mgr DC $203,296 Angela.Stubblefield@faa.gov
19 Lirio Lan-Ming Liu 2017 Prog Mgr DC $203,238 Lirio.Liu@faa.gov
20 Sunny Lee-Fanning 2017 Prog Mgr DC $203,220 Sunny.Fanning@faa.gov
21 Janet S. McLaughlin 2017 Prog Mgr DC $203,159 Janet.McLaughlin@faa.gov
22 Penny M. Giovanetti 2017 Medical Officer DC $203,076 Penny.Giovanetti@faa.gov
23 Michael C. Romanowski 2017 Prog Mgr DC $203,023 Michael.Romanowski@faa.gov
24 Thomas A. Winston 2017 Prog Mgr Georg $202,983 Thomas.Winston@faa.gov
25 Lawrence M. Fields 2017 Prog Mgr NY $202,867 Lawrence.Fields@faa.gov
26 Earl A. Lawrence 2017 Prog Mgr DC $202,729 Earl.Lawrence@faa.gov
27 Jodi S. McCarthy 2017 Prog Mgr DC $202,689 Jodi.McCarthy@faa.gov
28 Patricia Ann McNall 2017 Gen Attorney DC $202,549 Patricia.McNall@faa.gov
29 Stephen J. McMahon 2017 Prog Mgr DC $202,549 Stephen.McMahon@faa.gov
30 H Clayton Foushee 2017 Misc Adm Prog DC $202,535 Clayton.Foushee@faa.gov
31 Jeffrey E. Duven 2017 Prog Mgr Wash $202,491 Jeffrey.Duven@faa.gov
32 Glen A. Martin 2017 Prog Mgr DC $202,408 Glen.Martin@faa.gov
33 Jerome Michael Mellody 2017 Gen Attorney DC $202,385 Jerome.Mellody@faa.gov
34 Patricia A. Pausch 2017 Prog Mgr Ill $202,317 Patricia.Pausch@faa.gov
35 Elizabeth L. Ray 2017 Prog Mgr DC $202,299 Elizabeth.Ray@faa.gov
36 Lance T. Gant 2017 Prog Mgr Texas $202,218 Lance.Gant@faa.gov
37 Jeffrey U. Vincent 2017 Prog Mgr Georg $202,169 Jeffrey.Vincent@faa.gov
38 Kimberly A. Stover 2017 Prog Mgr Wash $202,166 Kimberly.Stover@faa.gov
39 J Mark Reeves 2017 Foreign Aff Pers Canada $202,164 Mark.Reeves@faa.gov
40 Coy Jeffrey E. Mc 2017 Prog Mgr DC $202,132 Jeffrey.McCoy@faa.gov
41 Dennis E. Roberts 2017 Prog Mgr Califor $202,090 Dennis.Roberts@faa.gov
42 Joshua P. Holtzman 2017 Prog Mgr DC $202,085 Joshua.Holtzman@faa.gov
43 James D. Linney 2017 Prog Mgr DC $201,982 James.Linney@faa.gov
44 Kerry B. Long 2017 Prog Mgr Alaska $201,892 Kerry.Long@faa.gov
45 Lyle A. Mello 2017 Prog Mgr Texas $201,872 Lyle.Mello@faa.gov
46 Peter J. Merkle 2017 Prog Mgr DC $201,813 Peter.Merkle@faa.gov
47 David E. Spencer 2017 Prog Mgr DC $201,777 David.Spencer@faa.gov
48 Jeffrey S. Planty 2017 Prog Mgr DC $201,762 Jeffrey.Planty@faa.gov
49 James C. Hayden 2017 Air Traf Control NY $201,680 James.Hayden@faa.gov
50 Mary K. Sherer 2017 Prog Mgr Georg $201,679 Mary.Sherer@faa.gov
51 Joseph N. Miniace 2017 Prog Mgr Misso $201,501 Joseph.Miniace@faa.gov
52 Alexander M. McDowell 2017 Prog Mgr DC $201,497 Alexander.McDowell@faa.gov
53 Catherine M. Lang 2017 Prog Mgr Belgium $201,442 Catherine.Lang@faa.gov
54 Timothy L. Hall 2017 Prog Mgr DC $201,358 Timothy.Hall@faa.gov
55 David W. Siewert 2017 Air Traf Control NY $201,292 David.Siewert@faa.gov
56 Joseph R. Tucker 2017 Prog Mgr DC $201,255 Joseph.Tucker@faa.gov
57 Cynthia M. Rooney 2017 Prog Mgr DC $201,212 Cynthia.Rooney@faa.gov
58 Pamela D. Whitley 2017 Prog Mgr DC $201,189 Pamela.Whitley@faa.gov
59 Melissa King 2017 Prog Mgr DC $201,112 Melissa.King@faa.gov
60 Allison W. Ritman 2017 Prog Mgr DC $201,092 Allison.Ritman@faa.gov
61 Daphne A. Fuller 2017 Gen Attorney DC $200,899 Daphne.Fuller@faa.gov
62 Shelley J. Yak 2017 Prog Mgr NJ $200,792 Shelley.Yak@faa.gov
63 David Andrew Ingram 2017 Prog Mgr DC $200,789 David.Ingram@faa.gov
64 Paul Fontaine 2017 Prog Mgr DC $200,665 Paul.Fontaine@faa.gov
65 Pearlis E. Johnson 2017 Prog Mgr Georg $200,662 Pearlis.Johnson@faa.gov
66 Michele M. Merkle 2017 Prog Mgr DC $200,657 Michele.Merkle@faa.gov
67 Curtis A. Holsclaw 2017 Prog Mgr DC $200,627 Curtis.Holsclaw@faa.gov
68 Karen S. Gahart 2017 Prog Mgr DC $200,551 Karen.Gahart@faa.gov
69 Cormick Richard D. Mc 2017 Prog Mgr DC $200,537 Richard.McCormick@faa.gov
70 Sean S. Torpey 2017 Prog Mgr DC $200,536 Sean.Torpey@faa.gov
71 Carey J. Fagan 2017 Prog Mgr Singpr $200,524 Carey.Fagan@faa.gov
72 Jacqueline A. Hill 2017 Prog Mgr DC $200,413 Jacqueline.Hill@faa.gov
73 Michael C. O'harra 2017 Prog Mgr Texas $200,413 Michael.O'harra@faa.gov
74 David C. Suomi 2017 Prog Mgr Wash $200,361 David.Suomi@faa.gov
75 Randall S. Fiertz 2017 Prog Mgr Wash $200,314 Randall.Fiertz@faa.gov
76 David Rickard 2017 Prog Mgr DC $200,288 David.Rickard@faa.gov
77 Jere K. Hayslett 2017 Prog Mgr DC $200,280 Jere.Hayslett@faa.gov
78 James C. Stroiney 2017 Prog Mgr DC $200,202 James.Stroiney@faa.gov
79 Douglas W. Roseboro 2017 Prog Mgr DC $200,092 Douglas.Roseboro@faa.gov
80 William J. Tracey 2017 Air Traf Control Ill $200,007 William.Tracey@faa.gov
81 Martin Frank J. San 2017 Prog Mgr DC $199,988 Frank.SanMartin@faa.gov
82 Sandra M. Sanchez 2017 Prog Mgr DC $199,948 Sandra.Sanchez@faa.gov
83 Michael D. Vandini 2017 Air Traf Control Ill $199,859 Michael.Vandini@faa.gov
84 Steven M. Urlass 2017 Prog Mgr NY $199,792 Steven.Urlass@faa.gov
85 Richard J. Rompala 2017 Air Traf Control Ill $199,756 Richard.Rompala@faa.gov
86 Winsome A. Lenfert 2017 Prog Mgr DC $199,750 Winsome.Lenfert@faa.gov
87 Steven T. Jackson 2017 Air Traf Control Georg $199,707 Steven.Jackson@faa.gov
88 Robert K. Jones 2017 Air Traf Control NH $199,580 Robert.Jones@faa.gov
89 Jeff R. Stewart 2017 Tech Sys Pr Mgr Texas $199,548 Jeff.Stewart@faa.gov
90 Paul C. Litke 2017 Air Traf Control Ill $199,385 Paul.Litke@faa.gov
91 Victoria Wei 2017 Prog Mgr DC $199,246 Victoria.Wei@faa.gov
92 Stephen J. Veronneau 2017 Medical Officer Okla $199,136 Stephen.Veronneau@faa.gov
93 Stephen W. Griswold 2017 Medical Officer Califor $199,136 Stephen.Griswold@faa.gov
94 Donald G. Drummer 2017 Prog Mgr DC $199,094 Donald.Drummer@faa.gov
95 Ronald G. Sekenski 2017 Air Traf Control Minn $198,860 Ronald.Sekenski@faa.gov
96 Lowell T. Hought 2017 Air Traf Control Kans $198,716 Lowell.Hought@faa.gov
97 Martin J. Fournier 2017 Air Traf Control NY $198,566 Martin.Fournier@faa.gov
98 John R. Etherington 2017 Air Traf Control Ill $198,487 John.Etherington@faa.gov
99 Gregory L. Juro 2017 Air Traf Control Texas $198,385 Gregory.Juro@faa.gov
100 Kevin W. Stark 2017 Air Traf Control Colora $198,279 Kevin.Stark@faa.gov

Devious FAA Director Daniel Elwell told Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., that it is longstanding executive branch policy through many administrations not to talk about details of discussions with the president.

Blumenthal said he is not aware of the policy and asked if it was law. If it was law, he asked Elwell which law. He also asserted that there was no executive privilege involved.

Devious FAA Director Dan Elwell-Federal ARROGANCE Administration and his Culture of Corruption

Devious Daniel K. Elwell Office of the Administrator (AOA) – Dan Elwell (Acting) na Daniel.Elwell@faa.gov,

Devious Daniel Elwell told Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., that it is longstanding executive branch policy through many administrations not to talk about details of discussions with the president.

Blumenthal said he is not aware of the policy and asked if it was law. If it was law, he asked Elwell which law. He also asserted that there was no executive privilege involved.

March 27, 2019-Before the Senate Investigating committee 5:40 p.m.

FAA Acting Administrator Daniel Elwell refused to answer questions about his conversation with President Donald Trump before the FAA grounded the Boeing 737 Max last week.

Elwell told Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., that it is longstanding executive branch policy through many administrations not to talk about details of discussions with the president.

Blumenthal said he is not aware of the policy and asked if it was law. If it was law, he asked Elwell which law. He also asserted that there was no executive privilege involved.

Elwell said that Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao never told him to ground the planes. He continued to say he wouldn’t talk about a conversation with the president.

The U.S. was among the last nations to ground the planes after the Ethiopian Airlines crash.

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New York Congressman Steve Israel calls the FAA the "Federal Arrogance Administration."

March 27, 2019-Senators grill ARROGANT FAA Autocrat Daniel Elwell on safety, industry ties

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Congressional hearings looking into the Federal Aviation Administration’s oversight of Boeing (all times local):

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5:50 p.m.

Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., challenged FAA Acting Administrator Daniel Elwell on whether the FAA should ban “selling safety features a la carte to the airlines.” Safety features like the MCAS (or Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System) shouldn’t be optional at an extra charge but should be provided gratis like seat belts on vehicles, he said.

“It doesn’t mask any problem,” Elwell insisted in questioning on the MCAS. “What it does, is it gives the proper feel to a pilot because he doesn’t have those cables.”


And Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., raised the prickly issue of whether the FAA, as an independent regulator, has a too-cozy a relationship with the airlines and aircraft makers. He noted that Boeing, a major government contractor with deep longstanding connections in Washington, is locked in intense competition with European maker Airbus.

Political appointees at the FAA pushed the career staff to quickly get done what was needed to get the Max flying, Udall said.

Robert Sumwalt, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said the issue of the FAA’s posture toward the industry is a part of his investigation.

Elwell said he kept the White House and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao “fully apprised” of developments before the decision to ground the planes. Chao “never told me to ground it,” he told Senator Blumenthal.

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5:40 p.m.

FAA Acting Administrator Daniel Elwell refused to answer questions about his conversation with President Donald Trump before the FAA grounded the Boeing 737 Max last week.

Elwell told Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., that it is longstanding executive branch policy through many administrations not to talk about details of discussions with the president.

Blumenthal said he is not aware of the policy and asked if it was law. If it was law, he asked Elwell which law. He also asserted that there was no executive privilege involved.

Elwell said that Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao never told him to ground the planes. He continued to say he wouldn’t talk about a conversation with the president.

The U.S. was among the last nations to ground the planes after the Ethiopian Airlines crash.

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5:15 p.m.

FAA Acting Administrator Daniel Elwell says information collected from flight data recorders shows no software malfunctions that forced down the nose of Boeing 737 Max jets in the U.S.

The software which makes the Max fly like older 737 jets is under investigation as a possible cause of jet crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia that killed 346 people.

Under questioning from Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., who flew Blackhawk helicopters in the Iraq war, Elwell said pilots should know what to do if software repeatedly points the nose down.

Duckworth says she still has “muscle memory” on how to resort to manual control if a Blackhawk nose is pointed down.

Elwell says that before the FAA grounded the Max last week, he talked to pilot unions and was told they are confident in the Max’s safety.

“We are absolutely confident in the safety of this aircraft,” Elwell said.

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4:40 p.m.

FAA Acting Administrator Daniel Elwell says his agency would have to hire 10,000 more workers and spend another $1.8 billion per year to match the number of airplanes certified for flight by its current system of delegating duties to aircraft makers.

Elwell says the system has been in use for about 60 years and is “part of the fabric of what we’ve used to become as safe as we are today.”

He says the FAA conducts strict oversight of the manufacturers, making sure employees have expertise in their field and professional integrity. Elwell also says the FAA’s European equivalent relies more on delegation of tasks to manufacturers than the U.S. does.

But Democrat Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut says he will introduce legislation to reform the system, calling it “safety on the cheap.”

Senator Blumenthal says Boeing rushed to get the 737 Max into the air to compete with Europe’s Airbus, so critical safety features were disregarded. “There needs to be rigorous reform so the FAA is put back in charge of safety,” he says.

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4:05 p.m.

Acting Federal Aviation Administrator Daniel Elwell tells a Senate subcommittee that to his knowledge, pilots were not given specific instructions on the Boeing 737 Max software that is under investigation as a cause of crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia.

Elwell says the Max was an update to the previous generation 737 with a system called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, to correct for small modifications and make it fly like the older planes. He says the plane has larger engines that were moved forward on the wings, and the nose wheel was extended 6 inches.

He says U.S., Canadian and European pilots flew the new and older planes in simulators, and unanimously agreed that the Max performed similarly and that additional flight training wasn’t needed.

The FAA originally retained oversight of the MCAS system but eventually turned it over to Boeing, he said.

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3:40 p.m.

Boeing says it doesn’t see a need to overhaul the way it develops airplanes based on two recent crashes of its new 737 Max that killed a total of 346 people.

The company issued its comments as pilots, regulators and airline executives were gathering at a Boeing facility to learn more about how it is addressing the crashes.

Boeing said it hopes to issue a software update to address a crucial flight-control program that is suspected of playing a role in the Oct. 29 crash of a Lion Air jet in Indonesia and the March 10 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Max. The company said that once the Federal Aviation Administration certifies the software fix, it would take about a day to deploy it and then an hour to install it on the planes.

Boeing said the process by which it designs, develops and tests planes has led to safer and safer air travel, and it sees no reason to overhaul it.

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3:10 p.m.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz says the Boeing 737 Max crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia and reports about how the plane was approved by the Federal Aviation Administration have shaken the public’s confidence.

The Republican opened a hearing on air safety Wednesday by the Senate Commerce Committee’s aviation subcommittee. Cruz, who chairs the subcommittee, says the crashes have raised questions about FAA oversight of how airplanes are certified to fly.

Cruz noted the “close relationship between industry and regulators” as a factor threatening to erode the confidence of the flying public. He says the committee needs to understand what happened with the crashes, how the FAA determined that the Max was airworthy, and “take action to keep something like these tragic crashes from occurring again.”

Cruz says commercial aviation currently is as safe as it’s ever been, but reports of lax oversight are frustrating. “We need to do better and I believe that we can,” he said.

Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, says the committee will hold a second hearing with representatives of Boeing and others from outside government.

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12:20 p.m.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao is defending President Donald Trump and blamed Congress for what she calls a delay in nominating a permanent head of the Federal Aviation Administration.

Sen. Richard Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, asked Chao at a Senate appropriations hearing on Wednesday whether it was unusual that Trump took 14 months to propose a nominee to head the agency, which is under scrutiny for its oversight of Boeing after two crashes involving Boeing’s best-selling plane.

Chao said the process has been slowed by the White House and by Congress, but Durbin pointed out that Trump never sent a nominee to the Senate for consideration.

Chao said acting administrator Daniel Elwell was qualified to lead the agency. Elwell is a former military and airline pilot who had been the No. 2 official at FAA.

Elwell was bypassed when Trump this month announced he would nominate a former pilot and Delta Air Lines executive, Stephen Dickson, to head the FAA.

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10:25 a.m.

Southwest Airlines says that the government’s grounding of all Boeing Max 8 jets will contribute to a $150 million revenue loss in the first quarter.

The airline says it had to cancel about 2,800 flights due to the groundings. According to numbers from Boeing, Southwest operates the largest fleet of the troubled planes.

The U.S. government followed nearly every other country in the world this month by ordering all Max 8 planes grounded after 157 people died in the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8. Another Max 8 crashed four months earlier in Indonesia, killing 189.

Southwest said in a filing Wednesday that it had to cancel an additional 6,600 flights from mid-February through the end of March due to weather and unscheduled maintenance.

The Senate is holding hearings Wednesday to look into the Federal Aviation Administration’s oversight of Boeing.

The Transportation Department’s inspector general, Calvin Scovel, is scheduled to testify and is expected to reveal plans to significantly revamp the FAA’s oversight of airplane construction.

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9:45 a.m.

Congressional hearings into the Federal Aviation Administration’s oversight of Boeing before and after two deadly crashes of its 737 Max, which claimed a total of 346 lives, will begin in several hours.

Among those expected to testify before the Senate aviation subcommittee Wednesday is the Transportation Department’s inspector general, who is leading a review of the FAA and Boeing. Calvin Scovel is expected to reveal plans to significantly revamp the FAA’s oversight of airplane construction.


Acting FAA Administrator Daniel Elwell will testify that Boeing submitted an application on Jan. 21 spelling out changes it planned to make to crucial flight-control software on the 737 Max — the same system that is suspected of playing a role in the Oct. 29 crash of a Lion Air jet in Indonesia and the March 10 plunge of an Ethiopian Airlines Max.

The Transportation Department watchdog has previously raised questions about the FAA’s certification of Boeing planes and the seemingly close relationship between some agency managers and Boeing.

Devious Daniel K. Elwell Office of the Administrator (AOA) – Dan Elwell (Acting) na Daniel.Elwell@faa.gov,

Various Lines of Business and Staff Offices and specialized organizations report directly to AOA.

Carl E. Burleson Office of the Deputy Administrator (ADA) – Carl Burleson (Acting) $200,373 Carl.Burleson@faa.gov,

Tina M. Amereihn Chief of Staff – Tina Amereihn (Acting) $214,546 Tina.Amereihn@faa.gov,

Beefy Teri Lynn Bristol Air Traffic Organization (AJO) – Teri Bristol (Chief Operating Officer) $278,426 Teri.Bristol@faa.gov,