Reid announces deal on FAA funding

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[Perdogg]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, announced Thursday that Democratic and Republican leaders have "been able to broker a bipartisan compromise between the House and the Senate" to fully fund the Federal Aviation Administration.

[wilco200]

Nobody knew the FAA was shut down. Everybody enjoyed the tax savings.

Republicans can add this to the list of taxes RAISED by Obama.

Oh, and just so we’re clear, Government Jobs are not real jobs.

[RadiationRomeo]

I was guessing the problem was that Dems wanted their nearly-private airports subsidized so they can fly directly to their district and not drive from a big city airport.

[clove]

If not, that little bump in the dept limit might not last until the 2012 elections.

I heard that is was already half spent as of today.

[Fledermaus]

I read where it would be funded short-term to the end of the current fiscal year i.e. end of September.

The small airport subsidizes were removed by the House and the WH says they’ll just waive those rules.

The GOP “deals” and gets screwed again.

So, as usual, if BO doesn’t like a law he just ignores it.

Why this guy isn’t in jail is beyond me.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Fox is reporting that the Senate will vote on the House bill then the White House will “waive” the part of the bill they don’t like or agree with.

What, Hussein by "executive order" will decide to give the subsidies back? When did that giant jackass get the power to write legislation?

[Recovering_Democrat]

So send Mike Lee in to filibuster this crap. Hussein doesn’t want to follow the law? Don’t give in.

[JoanneSD]

I think the house passed a stop gap bill, that included no funding for smaller airports that subsidize passengers, and no have FAA employees unionized.. and it would go till Sept 23, it was agreed upon I understand in the senate till boxer put the blitz to it.. and Reid just said to hell with it and left.. I called Barbies office and asked for her apologize to the Nation for lying and blaming this on the republicans when it was the dems in the senate that blocked the funding.. in the first place

[Iron Munro]

The disagreement and delay had to do with a provision in the FAA funding bill to roll back a sneaky regulation that makes it easier to unionize. Republicans put the provision in the bill. Harry Reid refused to compromise on the change.

This is basically the same as the “Card Check” rule that the unions want Obama to put into law. It allows a shop to be unionized when a majority of those voting vote yes to unionize. Traditionally the approval to unionize a shop requires a yes vote from majority of the total employees, regardless of how many voted.

See this (from Huffpo of all places!):

“FAA Shutdown At Stake In House, Senate Clash Over Union Organizing”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/19/faa-shutdown-union-organizing_n_904049.html

“The root of the dispute is a labor provision in a long-term FAA funding bill passed by the House in April. The Republican-sponsored provision would make it more difficult for airline and railroad workers to unionize by overturning a National Mediation Board rule approved last year. It allows employees in those industries to form a union by a simple majority of those voting. Under the old rule, workers who didn’t vote were treated as “no” votes.”

[Iron Munro]

Fox is reporting that the Senate will vote on the House bill then the White House will “waive” the part of the bill they don’t like or agree with.

That is essentially a line item veto which was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court back in 1998.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Fox is reporting that the Senate will vote on the House bill then the White House will “waive” the part of the bill they don’t like or agree with.

I'll take a wild guess and say that he will "waive" the omission of pro-union changes via the NLRB.

[RC2]

Great.....politicians caused the problem, let it run for a few weeks and then say they fixed it. You think Obama won’t take credit for something he caused in the first place?

[30Moves]

It was about Unions and small regional airports (that only politicians use because the tickets from there are astronomical)and government ticket subsidies up to $3000 per ticket.

[clintonh8r]

OK, without reading the article I'm going to guess.....GOP caved.

Am I right?

[JudgemAll]

How can we have the FAA if we have no private jets to pay for landing fees? Again, this is very scary when Reid makes commando king pronouncements like these, like he invented the internet or something.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

The root of the dispute is a labor provision in a long-term FAA funding bill passed by the House in April. The Republican-sponsored provision would make it more difficult for airline and railroad workers to unionize by overturning a National Mediation Board rule approved last year. It allows employees in those industries to form a union by a simple majority of those voting. Under the old rule, workers who didn’t vote were treated as “no” votes.

See post #30.

[Peter W. Kessler]

Mitch McConnel: 21st Century Cave Man.

[Mouton]

I thought it was congressman Mica who was the sticking point...what did bonehead do, tell him he would strip him of his committeeship if he did not stop holding it up??

[TheOldLady]

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[vaudine]

If it was bipartisan, Repubs caved again. Been reading and heard Rush today about the FAA deal. Ostensibly, it was about govt. funding airlines in rural areas to subsidize people who have to pay more to fly because of where they live.

The real deal was card check being slipped in the back door to unionize without secret ballot--If only 50 employees voted and there was a bigger number of pro union, the 50 would be counted the total eligible to vote, even though 100 more people sat it out. So 34 of 150 employees could vote in a union and not with secret ballots--the non secret ballots being why 100 employees sat it out.

Reid was out ranting his usual "Repubs are holding the nation hostage" tactics again. Repubs caved, when they should have told Reid to suck eggs, like the snake he is.

vaudine

[Siena Dreaming]

No, I think the hold up is in the Senate.