| The United States Department of Transportation | | | | the DOT may lack the legal authority to unilaterally |
| (DOT) on February 8, 2005, presented its decision | | | | make such a change. Yet it does not begin to reveal |
| before the U.S. House of Representatives House | | | | all of the implications of such a historic shift in policy |
| Aviation Sub-Committee, to change a rule which | | | | in bypassing the U.S. Congress in order to do |
| would clear the way for foreign corporations to own | | | | so.Trade negotiations with the European Union to |
| and control U.S. airlines. But members of the House | | | | loosen up regulations in ownership of U.S. airlines is |
| Aviation Sub-Committee were all in agreement that | | | | seen as a tradeoff by the DOT in order for the U.S. |