Here you go.. A bit more Complete explanation of the issues.
Boehner to Dems: Either Cave, or No FAA Til September
http://transportationnation.org/2011/08/01/boehner-to-dems-either-cave-or-no-faa-til-september/
...To recap, the GOP-controlled House two weeks ago passed a temporary authorization extension for the FAA. But the bill included a tweak taking a bite out of federal subsidies for just a small handful of regional airports. Senate Democrats refused to swallow the bill, instead insisting on a “clean” extension. The FAA, and nearly 4,000 furloughed workers, have been sitting in the crossfire ever since....
Again, the Senate dodges the issue by doing nothing. The House passed a Bill, the Senate needs to either amend it and send it back, or ... complain.
...On Monday, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-Va.), chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, tried to clear a pair of FAA bills through the Senate. One was the “clean” extension Democrats have been bucking for, the other was a new package of about $71 million dollars in regional airport subsidy cuts, far larger than the cuts Republicans are pushing.
But GOP senators objected to both measures, extending the deadlock past the time when House members skipped town.
Asked Monday evening if there was a change of averting an FAA shutdown for the remainder of the summer, Boehner said, “That depends on the Senate.”
A Rockefeller spokesman said Monday that it was unclear whether jammed Senate Democrats would accede to the House FAA bill and reopen the agency.
If you can’t model the past, where you know the answer pretty well, how can you model the future? - William Happer Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University
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