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