Tue, Sep 13, 2011
House And Senate Members Want To Avoid Fight, Partial FAA
Shutdown Of The Previous Round
Members of the U.S. House and Senate seem to be anxious to avoid
all the bad publicity that surrounded the partial shutdown of the
FAA last month, which came as a result of the political
bickering over funding the agency just before the August
recess.
Senator Rockefeller, Congressman
Mica
Another in a long line of interim funding measures called
"continuing resolutions" seems to have some momentum, and could
pass as early as this week, according to the Wall Street
Journal. It needs to, as the most recent CR expires on
September 16th. House and Senate leaders have both presented
continuing resolution bills that are devoid of the controversial
measures which led to the shutdown in August. Some 4,000 FAA
employees were furloughed as a result of the infighting, and
hundreds of construction projects at airports ground to a halt.
A spokesman for House Transportation Committee chair John Mica
(R-FL) says he expects the committee to be presented what he says
is a "clean" bill, which does not include across-the-board budget
cuts sought by some Republicans.
But there is nothing in the Washington climate that signals a
break in the feud between the parties which has stymied passage of
a long-term funding bill for the FAA since the last one expired in
2007. The long-term funding bill has become the rope in a
tug-of-war between FedEx Express and UPS over how some drivers can
be organized under federal labor laws. More recently, specific
aviation safety measures have been inserted into the debate. All
that to say that, while the agency may continue to be funded at
2007 levels for now, a long-term solution may continue to be
particularly elusive.
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