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| Obama signs bill to end aviation shutdown |
| 2011-08-05 |
| Hmmmmmm...I wasn't aware that aviation had been shut down. A White House official says President Barack Obama has signed a bill to end a two-week partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration and allow thousands of employees to return to work. And, yet, plenty of planes have flown over my house in the last two weeks. And none of them have crashed... Lawmakers reached a bipartisan compromise Thursday to extend the FAA's operating authority through mid-September. The Senate passed the measure Friday, using a "unanimous consent" procedure so lawmakers didn't have to return to Washington from their Okay, let's vote. Willie, the Capital cop. "Aye" Jose, the Capital janitor. "Aye" Okay. Motion passes... The shutdown has cost the government about $400 million in uncollected airline ticket taxes and idled thousands of construction workers. Ah, now I get it... |
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| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2011-08-05 18:20 |