"Under the leadership of Chair Maria Cantwell..." opensecrets.org reports that Cantwell's #4 lifetime donor is Boeing (Microsoft being #1 by a good margin). No

"Under the leadership of Chair Maria Cantwell..." opensecrets.org reports that Cantwell's #4 lifetime donor is Boeing (Microsoft being #1 by a good margin). No conflict of interest here I suppose... Also, searching the report for 'director' is interesting as there's no mention of the role Boeing's corporate board played on exerting pressure to get the 737MAX to market in order to avoid Airbus getting a ton of orders, right? [1] Another interesting issue is how the software testing took place at Boeing, another subject that seems to be lacking in the Senate report. According to reports testing was highly outsourced to low-paid temp workers [2]. > "Bloomberg's Peter Robison reported on June 28 that Boeing and its suppliers outsourced some of its 737 Max software development and testing to temporary workers. These temp workers, some of whom were recent college graduates, were employees or contract workers for Indian tech firms HCL Technologies and Cyient Ltd. Some of the testers and developers made as little as $9, the longtime engineers told Bloomberg. Former Boeing flight controls engineer Rick Ludtke said the move to outsource was centered on cost-cutting." I suppose asking some of those $9 an hour employees to testify before Congress about their roles in testing would have been just too embarrassing to Boeing. Cantwell instead wants to push the blame onto the FAA for lack of oversight, thereby protecting Boeing's corporate board members from responsibility. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/business/boeing-737-max-crash.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/business/boeing-737-max-c... [2] https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-outsourced-737-max-report-2019-6 https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-outsourced-737-max-re...