July 21, 2009 11:12 AM

RE: What Does The Senate Commerce Bill Mean For FAA Reauthorization?

The prospects for an FAA bill being passed this year are much better than in the 110th Congress, when disputes between the House and the Senate over user fees, a standoff over confirming the FAA administrator, and the high-profile presidential election allowed previous bills to be neglected. Now that a single party controls Congress and the White House, the FAA can no longer be used as a partisan political football. FAA reauthorization is years overdue. The time horizon envisioned by these bills (two and three years) is still too short; the agency needs the direction that a five-year authorization would…  Read more