{"id":5522,"date":"2011-08-03T00:48:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T07:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5522"},"modified":"2011-08-03T00:48:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T07:48:07","slug":"faa-in-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/03\/faa-in-limbo\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA in Limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congress has gone on vacation, leaving the FAA in limbo for over a month and costing the US Treasury over $30 million per day in revenues.  This certainly seems insane, and it follows that behind all insaniTEA, Republicans are lurking and scheming.  At issue is a  Republican demand to strip transportation workers of their collective bargaining rights.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"3FAA\"The House and Senate began a five-week recess on Tuesday without resolving a funding stalemate at the Federal Aviation Administration<\/a>, leaving 4,000 agency employees and 80,000 contractors high and dry.<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) announced shortly before 7 p.m. that the chamber was in recess until Sept. 6. The House, which wrapped up its legislative business on Monday, will not be in session again until Sept. 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The impasse is over a proposal by House Republicans to cut funding for a program for airports in several rural areas. Also at issue is a longer-term FAA reauthorization bill containing provisions restricting airline workers\u2019 collective bargaining rights<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow discusses how Republicans are hurting the economy through their union busting.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Republicans care so much about jobs that they are idling thousands of workers.  Republicans care so much about the deficit that they are embarking on more economic terrorism costing the Treasury almost $1 billion.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congress has gone on vacation, leaving the FAA in limbo for over a month and costing the US Treasury over $30 million per day in revenues.  This certainly seems insane, and it follows that behind all insaniTEA, Republicans are lurking and scheming.  At issue is a  Republican demand to strip transportation workers of their collective […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}