This case has Congress criticizing both Boeing and the FAA and of the two the FAA comes back with the crappiest response, trying to throw shade on the report. Congress is certainly not a collection of innocent choir boys, but here, given these responses, the FAA is the worst of the bad guys. Sorry if that fact frustrates, but that's how it is.
That particular detail doesn't really effect my overall statement. Congress may at times contradict regulators. My point would be that congress isn't going to change the regulatory capture situation because congress itself is part of the "revolving door" of regulators, corporate bureaucrats and congressional staff.
Openly criticizing may just mean that they want a lot of corrupt money in return.
What happened with the Hungarian and Polish veto was terrifying for me: the governing prime ministers got away with all the money stealing despite the huge criticism. The only rational explanation is that they will continue chanelling lots of money back to Germany through car companies.
