Originally Posted by Hedley

Congress has a short attention span too since they really only focus on the current or next election cycle. There is simply too much money on the table for them to stop the Max 7/10 certification over EICAS. They'll get their 30 second campaign sound bites on the news, but they're not going to shut down a program that will cost Boeing and their customers billions of dollars. They'll like the positive press for making Boeing get their act together, but they'll avoid all of the bad press from shutting down the program. That would cost Boeing and the airlines with orders billions of dollars, jobs would be cut, and airfares would rise due to increasing demand and reduced capacity. The last two versions of the max will eventually get certified, and airlines with firm orders will end up flying them.