Regulations and Government
FAA reauthorization bill remains stalled in Senate
With Congress wrangling over health-care reform and the September 30 end of Fiscal Year 2009 fast approaching, at press time it appeared that yet another s

With Congress wrangling over health-care reform and the September 30 end of Fiscal Year 2009 fast approaching, at press time it appeared that yet another short-term funding extension would be needed before any FAA reauthorization bill is enacted.

Although the House of Representatives passed its
version of reauthorization legislation in May, a companion bill in the Senate has only made it past that body’s Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. It is being held up
in the Finance Committee, which must weigh in on taxes and fees. But the Finance Committee has been tied up trying to devise a bipartisan health-care reform bill.