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Reid announces deal on FAA funding
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Posted on 08/04/2011 1:45:27 PM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: faa; lahood; nevada; raylahood; reid; transportation
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To: vaudine
Repubs caved

How did they cave?

I've read that a few times...why are you saying it?

41 posted on 08/04/2011 2:41:31 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: Perdogg

42 posted on 08/04/2011 2:44:39 PM PDT by topfile
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To: Doctor 2Brains

Funny thing, no one missed the fact that is was shut down...I only heard about because a friend of mine posted something about last week that FAA was shutdown.. time to privitize this agency.


43 posted on 08/04/2011 2:52:37 PM PDT by scbison
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To: Beaten Valve
...Congress is away on vacation, so they’d have to figure out a way to get them to all come in back for a vote...

Not true. Congress is NOT on vacation. Just members are not present. It is still gaveled into session each day (House stays in session so Obama can't recess appoint anyone). A unanimous consent can be ruled if one member requests it. If no objections - voila! A bill passes.

44 posted on 08/04/2011 2:58:03 PM PDT by TexasRedeye (Eschew obfuscation)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
See post #30.

Probably correct - that is likely what he will do.

But see post #29.


45 posted on 08/04/2011 3:06:47 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The more effeminate & debauched the people, the more they are fitted for a tyrannical government.)
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To: Siena Dreaming
IF THEY AGREED WITH WHAT DEMS WANTED, THEY CAVED TO :

1. EAR MARKS--subsidies for airlines that fly empty or half empty to accomodate a small number of fliers.

2.CARD CHECK TO FORM UNIONS WITHOUT A SECRET BALLOT. This measure was brought up before, but couldn't pass. It would allow union organizers to know WHO was voting against the union. I explained how it would work in my ex. in earlier post.

150 employees in a place. Union is voted on NOT using secret ballot. Only 50 employees vote, so they are considered ALL that are eligible to vote. 34 want union; 16 vote against union in spite of letting union organizers know who they are. 100 employees abstain because they do not want union and do not to be hassled by organizers. The union comes in and all 150 have to join to work there because 50 is considered the total number eligible to vote.

That is my understanding of what it is. A back door to "card check" just as Obama is finding ways to implement everything he wants without going through an actual vote in the two chambers--a negotiated settlement, that if true makes unions a wholel ot easier to organize. This is just one employer, but it would be a trend and would be yet another payoff to Obama's union people.

vaudine

46 posted on 08/04/2011 3:12:27 PM PDT by vaudine
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47 posted on 08/04/2011 3:13:37 PM PDT by devolve (. . . . . . . . . . . . Fat & Furious - Burger & Fries Queen*s 1700+ calorie lunches . . . . .)
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To: Perdogg

Is this another labor union bail out?


48 posted on 08/04/2011 3:19:13 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Iron Munro
But see post #29.

Which is why he probably won't try a line item veto. In the tradition of Slick Willy, it depends on what "waive" means. Maybe he has another bizarre scheme I haven't thought of in mind.

Somebody posted that Fox News used the word "waive" but it was not in the posted article. I don't even know the exact source.

49 posted on 08/04/2011 3:34:16 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Budget sins can be fixed. Amnesty is irreversible.)
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To: vaudine
IF THEY AGREED WITH WHAT DEMS WANTED...That is my understanding of what it is.

I don't know why you're understanding it that way.

There's no indication in any story I've read that they agreed to what the Dems wanted.

In fact, Fox is saying Reid will likely pass the House bill.

50 posted on 08/04/2011 3:36:00 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: Perdogg

Last year the Obama administration lowered the bar for declaring what percentage of a group must assent to being in a union. The republican House funding bill that went to the senate tried to remove this lower standard and the RATS went predictably ballistic. And the stalemate ensued.


51 posted on 08/04/2011 3:36:29 PM PDT by prairiebreeze
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To: tobyhill

Oh, good Lord! Why not just destroy all our cropland and call us North Korea! Might as well admit we have a dictator wannabe in the White house.


52 posted on 08/04/2011 3:37:28 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (It's the Tea Party's fault!)
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To: RadiationRomeo
Dems wanted their nearly-private airports subsidized so they can fly directly to their district and not drive from a big city airport.

That's exactly right1 Did you ever take a look at some of these air-ports they are funding? Some might have two flights in a 24hr period.

53 posted on 08/04/2011 3:51:46 PM PDT by caww
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Maybe he has another bizarre scheme I haven't thought of in mind.

He will probably just ignore the part of the law he doesn't like.

He breaks the law at will and never gets challenged or called on it in a serious way.


54 posted on 08/04/2011 4:12:13 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The more effeminate & debauched the people, the more they are fitted for a tyrannical government.)
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To: tobyhill

Ah, another one o’ them Signing Statements Obama promised he wouldn’t make.


55 posted on 08/04/2011 4:18:36 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: Perdogg
"bipartisan compromise"

Might as well say the Republicans caved again.

56 posted on 08/04/2011 4:27:16 PM PDT by Bobby_Taxpayer (Don't tread on us...or you'll pay the price in the next election.)
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To: Noamie
No one even noticed they were gone.

Me either.

It wasn't Air Traffic Contol that the FAA was doing without. It was "engineering studies", "modernization", and other stuff.

57 posted on 08/04/2011 4:41:20 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: vaudine

The GOP didn’t “cave,” as far as I can see.

The Dems were holding it up, but they (the Dems) appear to have approved it after Bambi declared he was going to ignore it anyway.

That said, there are a lot of good things about keeping flights to small airports. Having lived in one of these places, I can tell you that not having flights to a bigger airport is a major handicap to the local economies. But the big reason airlines need subsidies in the first place is because government regulations make landing fees so high. The flights from my town actually left and came in full all the time, and they were pretty expensive. But when the government started slapping all these fees on the airports, that meant that a huge amount of each ticket price was going to pay regulatory costs. That’s what needs reforming.


58 posted on 08/04/2011 4:46:37 PM PDT by livius
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Yeah, wild guess indeed... /$


59 posted on 08/04/2011 4:57:54 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The Destroyer is anti-US anti-West anti-Christian anti-Israel and reminiscent of the anti-Christ.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
I'll take a wild guess and say that he will "waive" the omission of pro-union changes via the NLRB.

Exactly this is card check through the back door

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60 posted on 08/04/2011 5:01:30 PM PDT by Elle Bee
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