Senate plan to end FAA shutdown falls apart

[James48]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans late Monday blocked a bipartisan Senate plan to end the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, making it increasingly likely Congress will be unable to resolve the legislative standoff before September.

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On Monday, Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., chairman of the committee that oversees the FAA, and Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, the senior Republican on the committee, floated a proposal to restore full operating authority to the FAA while cutting air service subsidies $71 million. The plan fell apart when Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said he would use parliamentary procedures to tie up the Senate in an effort to prevent a vote on the measure.

Hutchison questioned the logic of allowing a stalemate over relatively small savings in subsidy cuts to prevent the government from collecting many times that amount in revenues designated for the operation of the nation's air traffic system.

"This just does not make sense," Hutchison said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/senate-plan-end-faa-shutdown-falls-apart-233254352.html

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Damn republicans are so anti-Union, that they're willing to destroy America, put 4,000 federal employees, and 70,000 private sector employees out of work. Bastards.

[xchrom]

1. Recommend

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. This is good.

Certain GOPers are so nuts, this is the perfect vehicle to fly that message home.

[pinto]

3. Kick

:kick:

[titaniumsalute]

4. Wait until a 737 full of people go down

There would be absolute hell to pay for the right. Of course I'm not wishing that but without proper inspections (Those FAA inspectors are also on furlough) it increases the likely hood airlines will not follow strict guidelines. I'm flying tomorrow and ordinarily I don't mind. I'm a little nervous.

[SnowCritter]

6. I put my wife and step-daughter on a plane

this morning. I'm not overly worried, yet. However, I'll grow increasingly worried as time goes by and inspection and maintenance schedules aren't met.

Of course, our "friends on the Right" would likely posit that left unregulated, the airline industry will continue their exemplary standards of maintenance. :rofl: :spray:

[Downwinder]

7. Who is maintaining navigational aids?

[amyrose2712]

5. Very scary. And infuriating. nt

[AlbertCat]

8. said he would use parliamentary procedures to tie up the Senate

So let him.

No... just throw up your hands and surrender to the mere threat that they might have to stay up late.

Make him read from the phone book...

get the cots out...

It' not like you're DOING ANYTHING ELSE WORTHWHILE.

[Plucketeer]

11. You NAILED it!

This is truly a "thumb-your-nose" insult directed at the American people.

[No Elephants]

12. Senate rulz is Senate rulz; and the Senate loves it some faux fillibusters.

[Karenina]

9. This is so nutzoid...

[Demit]

10. Also, the fed govt is losing tax revenue, which the airlines are raking in by boosting ticket prices

For Tom Coburn, it's a three-fer. Kill the unions, starve the govt, give big business free money. Whee! Debt ceiling 'crisis' is supposedly past (oh! look at what we won!), but the fun is just beginning.

[drm604]

13. And we careen into the next manufactured crisis.

• Threaten the unemployed to extend tax breaks for the wealthy. Check
  
• Threaten the entire world's economy to force budget cuts. Check
  
• Threaten the air safety of the American public in order to advance an anti-union agenda. Ongoing...
  
  So what's next?