Multichannel News reports that U.S. Senate Communications Subcommittee Chairman Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., are pushing for the Federal Aviation Administration to publish a proposed rule that will inform the public on who is flying drones and where they are flying them. Drone sightings at Fenway Park in Boston and New Jersey's Newark Liberty Airport, which led to flights being halted, were pointed out in Thune and Markey's letter to Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. The letter also noted that Congress provided the FAA with a two-year deadline to craft drone-tracking rules and that the deadline passed nearly a year ago.
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