Posted on February 23rd, 2019
Five years of negotiations in Congress came to an end last week as President Barack Obama signed H.R. 658, the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, into law. The bill, which keeps the fuel tax at existing levels and does not include user fees, provides $63.4bn to fund the Federal Aviation Administration through 2015,…
Posted on February 9th, 2019
With Senate approval of a four-year FAA reauthorization package monday afternoon, the measure now goes to the White House for the President’s signature. The Senate action ended more than four years of foot-dragging and often contentious debate, along with a record 23 short-term extensions of the FAA’s programs and funding since the last four-year reauthorization…
Posted on August 12th, 2011
A group of Democratic senators sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday asking him to appoint conferees to FAA reauthorization talks before the current temporary extension expires on September 16. The Senators urged Boehner to avoid the “political brinksmanship” that led to a partial shutdown of the FAA and furlough of 4,000…
Posted on August 4th, 2011
Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced this afternoon that Congress has reached a bipartisan compromise that will allow temporary funding of the FAA through mid-September and end a two-week partial shutdown of the agency. “This agreement does not resolve the important differences that still remain,” Reid noted in a written statement, “but I believe…