Reid announces deal on FAA funding

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) -- 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.

"This agreement does not resolve the important differences that still remain," Reid said in a written statement. "But I believe we should keep Americans working while Congress settles its differences, and this agreement will do exactly that."

The dispute could be resolved as early as Friday, a senior Democratic leadership aide told CNN earlier in the day.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/08/04/congress.faa/index.html

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And without demanding passage of a BBA...

[pnwmom]

1. Finally some good news. n/t

[atreides1]

4. It is good news

For those people who were furloughed...but what did it cost?

[pnwmom]

7. And it's good news for anyone wanting to get on a plane.

[James48]

10. Don't count on it.

It is not a done deal. All we have at the moment is an announcement from Harry Reid, not any announcements from the republicans.


I know people in FAA who are laid off right now, and I won't believe it until I see a Congressional vote on something.

[leftynyc]

2. What did he have to give up

to make that happen? You know the pubs didn't do it out of the goodness of their hearts or concern for actual people.

[ewagner]

3. I think Obama

had to give up his dog....and maybe one of his daughters....

[bowens43]

6. probably defunded the EPA or something....nt

[tinwi]

8. I think they threw the unions under the bus

They need a majority of employees, not VOTING employees to keep their union. Anyone not voting will be counted as no. They should have to be elected that way. I think unions are more functional than Congress, that is why they hate them so much. So the hostage was FAA, the target unions.

[tinwi]

9. I meant the ransom was unions

[trayfoot]

11. My thoughts exactly!

[24601]

15. It was really brutal - he had to read the fucking bill sent to him by

the House so he could see that the Secretary of Transportation could waive the cut offs for any & all of the 13 subsidy provisions. So tomorrow, the Senate is passing the bill exactly as it was received two weeks ago.

Thanks Harry, we didn't really need the $ anyway.

[E_Pluribus_Unitarian]

5. I think they just wanted to save face...

Keeping it confidential allows them to push the controversial parts back to at least September, without admitting any fault in causing this debacle.

[placton]

12. a prediction:

we will get fucked somehow

[James48]

14. Yep- you are right.

The "deal" is, that the republicans will allow the Senate to vote, and accept, by unanimous consent, the bad deal the House passed two weeks ago.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44023626/ns/politics-capitol_hill/#.TjsgHWHAyso

No compromise, no deal, other than to "allow" the Senate to approve the republican temporary plan.

[Taverner]

13. Isn't it sad that we only have Reid and Pelosi on our sides?

[24601]

16. Best laugh I've had all day! Tell me again about their receent

votes.

[Taverner]

17. Well...my point exactly

Compared to everyone else, they ARE fighting for us

But that doesn't mean shit...

[No Elephants]

27. The only thing I have on my side is the bus I was thrown under.

And that bus is really hurting my side.

[deacon]

18. Good man and pfffft to the cynics gone wild. n/t

[dipsydoodle]

19. FAA shutdown: Stopgap deal to end partisan standoff

Source: BBC News

US congressional leaders say they have reached a stop-gap deal in a funding dispute which has partially shut the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said it would approve a bill passed by the Republican-held House of Representatives.

The bill contains $16.5m (£10m) of Republican-backed cuts in air service subsidies to rural communities.



Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14413672

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If this is a duplicate then please either move or delete.

[Turbineguy]

20. The Teabaggers got their cuts

and it only cost how many hundred millions?

[chelsea0011]

21. Another "deal"

[Karenina]

23. Please watch this if you haven't already seen it.

from TRMS:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#44028371

[Pab Sungenis]

22. ..

[blueclown]

24. It wasn't a "partisan" standoff.

Using that term suggests that both parties were at blame for the standoff. There is only one party to blame for the standoff.

[No Elephants]

28. Are you thinking of bi-partisan? " Partisan" does not imply two sides.

[fasttense]

25. So did the RepubliCONS and Teabaggers get their kill the Unions legislation?

Did the Senate pass the House's new FAA Union rule that counts every person who does NOT vote in a Union election as a NO vote?

I think we should use this rule in every state. If someone does NOT vote it should be counted as a NO vote against the incumbent and/or the winner of the election.

[Igel]

26. This confuses me.

The bipartisan deal is that the Senate will approve the House bill.

In other words, both have done something pro-active, since the standoff was announced, to get past this problem on a short-term basis. But the House did nothing.

It was all the House's fault, and now that the House has finally done nothing the Senate can approve the House's bill. Until the house actively did nothing to the bill, the Senate couldn't be held responsible for approving the House's bill. It was simply impossible to approve the bill until nothing was done by the House.

Unless this article somehow got the facts completely wrong, it's a bit too obviously trying to continue with the spin that it was all the House's fault and everybody else was innocent.

Now, the House could have approved a bill like the Senate's; or it could have approved a bill that the Senate would have liked. But doesn't this rather say that the problem was that the Senate didn't pass the bill before it went home or at least through it to conference committee? Few said this, though.

And while the "real issue" is overturning the union voting rules of long-standing, which solidly continued the New Deal precedent as overturned by a recent FAA decision that abolished nearly 80 years' of administrative procedure, the Senate was willing to approve it as soon as the much less important abolition of subsidies to regional airports like the one in, oh, Reid's district was waivable by administrative/executive action?

In other words, what mattered was the House taking action and the Senate's refusal to even briefly approve the union voting rule revision. But all that was needed was for the airport subsidies to be waived and the Senate voted. Uh...