FAA? Who needs an FAA anyway.....?

[marmar]

(Bloomberg) About 4,000 employees of the Federal Aviation Administration will remain furloughed into September after U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid failed today to break the impasse over the agency’s funding.

That deadlock will mean a continued halt to airport construction projects, including demolition of the old control tower at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, that were stopped when the agency’s authorization expired July 22. The FAA also is losing $28.6 million in aviation taxes each day the deadlock continues, Laura Brown, an agency spokeswoman, said by telephone.

Reid said he was prepared to accept the House bill to extend the FAA’s revenue-raising authority through Sept. 16 and eliminate subsidies for flights to 13 rural airports, including one in his home state of Nevada. Other Senate Democrats refused to accept the cuts that were in the House bill, Adam Jentleson, a spokesman for Reid, said in an e-mail. The impasse cannot be resolved until Congress returns from its recess Sept. 6.

“Four thousand air-travel employees are out of work and safety inspectors are working without pay because Republicans are playing reckless games with airline safety,” Jentleson said. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-02/reid-may-ask-senate-to-accept-house-faa-extension-bill.html

[William769]

1. Well with no corperate tax on jets, the skies will be busy.