Aviation once had an unlikely friend in high places with the Democrats.This was ruined by a self serving trio on the Board of AOPA who told Brian Greig that the President of AOPA did not have the support of the Board in her quest to stop "strict liability sneaking into the regs. Naturally the Democrats were wary of AOPA after that debacle..John Anderson had promised the trio that he would "look into it later" if they didn't embarrass his Government. Well he might but he hasn't yet.
This exercise has been typical CASA. For over twenty years they have successfully delayed rewriting the regs by proposing ridiculous things and then "retreating" to what they wanted in the first place. And they continually get away with it