Senate To Consider FAA Reauthorization Bill
By Kerry Lynch, Jennifer Michels
The Senate surprised many Washington insiders last week by taking up consideration of Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s (D-W.Va.) two-year FAA reauthorization bill, the FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act (S.223), just days after the Commerce Committee Chairman introduced the legislation (BA, Jan. 31/10). The bill was positioned as a bipartisan jobs-creation bill, which cleared the path for consideration on the Senate floor while the ...
