'Have You Ever Taken To Social Media To Personally Attacked A Judge?': Amy Klobuchar Grills Witness

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During Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) asked witness Jesse Panuccio if he would ever go on social media to personally attack a judge if he disagreed with a ruling.

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00:04Senator Klobuchar.

00:05Well, thank you much, Chairman.

00:07I just want to start by expressing my deepest sympathies and appreciation to those who are

00:13here today who lost loved ones.

00:16We just lost a Minnesotan, Wendy Jo Schaefer, in the tragic midair collision in Washington,

00:24D.C.

00:26My thoughts are with all of you, and I hope we can make this better.

00:31As Chair Cruz noted in his opening statement, there was a recent close call unrelated to

00:38Boeing involving a Delta jet that was filled with Minnesotans, including a member of my

00:45staff that came within 500 feet of a military plane.

00:52I actually talked to the DOD over the weekend, Mr. Chairman, and they have assured me this

00:58was going to be an immediate FAA investigation.

01:02From what I understand, this was not about the airline, and we have to figure out what

01:07went wrong here.

01:09So my questions of you, Mr. Orberg, thank you for being here.

01:14In your testimony, you discussed the efforts to elevate Boeing's safety and quality culture

01:20and how you have engaged workers in the process, generating 26,000 improvement ideas for employees.

01:27Could you talk about what work you have done on open communications and how are you ensuring

01:34that employees continue to speak out on issues when they see them?

01:40Thank you, Senator.

01:43The culture change and allowing people to speak up is critically important to me and

01:48I think to the success of the long term of the Boeing company.

01:52We've made significant changes in our business processes to get people, as I mentioned, closer

02:01to the people building and designing the aircraft.

02:07We've initiated a culture change process within the company, which, again, I believe culture

02:11starts with the values and behaviors at the top, the leadership.

02:16We need to walk the talk and people need to see that in the organization.

02:21We're putting those values and behaviors into our performance management system so that

02:26people are evaluated and their annual performance is determined based on how they exhibit those

02:35values and behaviors.

02:36We're putting it into our training program so that we're training our leaders.

02:41We're also making leadership selection decisions based on how do these people exhibit the behaviors

02:48in the company.

02:49Okay.

02:50Thanks.

02:51Go ahead.

02:52You have one more thing.

02:53My experience is that once people understand what behaviors are acceptable, they tend to

03:00align to them.

03:01It's when we have a leadership that maybe is not exhibiting the behaviors that are on

03:08the poster on the wall, but not exhibiting those.

03:11People are smart.

03:12They figure out how to understand what they're really being rewarded on.

03:17We're really working to change that culture and, I think, get to a culture where people

03:23feel free to speak about issues and communicate across their teams so that we can get issues

03:29resolved quickly before they turn into bigger issues.

03:34We also have the issue of pipeline of workers.

03:37Wall Street Journal did a report on this just last year.

03:42Senator Moran and I got included in the FAA reauthorization, our bill that created a new

03:48grant program to train aircraft manufacturing technical workers.

03:54Could you talk about what you've done to make sure that we're getting in more workers and

03:59what we should be doing better on that front?

04:02Senator, we spend a lot of activity in early STEM education, supporting STEM-related activities

04:08to try to get more young students into STEM fields to support the work that we need.

04:17Our workforce is relatively stable right now, which is good.

04:22I think we came out of COVID and had significant workforce demand.

04:28We've been through that.

04:29Our focus right now is on training and ensuring the people that we've brought in are effective

04:36and efficient in what they're doing.

04:39Just one last question.

04:40Following the Alaska Airlines flight 1282, the door blowout, can you walk through what

04:47the enhanced oversight, because since then you've been under this enhanced oversight,

04:51walk through it very quickly compared to the previous FAA oversight?

04:58There's additional formal inspections being done at Boeing.

05:02There's more formal inspections being done at Wichita.

05:05Every door, whether it's a door plug or an active door, is going through additional inspection

05:12to make sure there's no workmanship errors that would require rework at a later date

05:17in our production facility.

05:19As I said, we're seeing very good improvement in the overall quality of the fuselages and

05:26particularly around any door-related issues.

05:29We've added significant amount of inspection.

05:32Okay.

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