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Chuck Schumer: Passage Of FAA Bill Shows Republicans Suffer Backlash From Obstruction
First Posted: 9/15/11 07:07 PM ET Updated: 9/15/11 07:07 PM ET
WASHINGTON -- The Senate narrowly averted another shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration Thursday, passing a temporary funding bill that Democrats saw as evidence Republicans are feeling heat from the public over obstructionist tactics.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) had threatened to block the bill after the GOP-led House added it to a larger temporary extension of highway funding that was set to expire on Friday.
Coburn argued that the part of the highway bill that funds road beautification was wasteful pork, and wanted it stripped. Ultimately, he settled for an agreement to let states shift that money to nuts and bolts repair projects when the long-term highway bill comes up. The short-term bill passed easily, 92 to 6.
If he hadn't backed down, it could have brought flashbacks to the unpopular three-week FAA closure last month that halted numerous construction projects and put some 70,000 people out of work. It also cost the government about $200 million a week in lost tax revenue -- and that was all after the public was already angry over the the near default brought on by the battle over raising the nation's debt limit.
A Bloomberg poll released Thursday found that the public is laying the bulk of the blame for such governmental gridlock on the GOP, with some 45 percent of Americans saying so.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/15/chuck-schumer-republicans-tom-coburn-faa_n_965018.html
Chuck Schumer: Passage Of FAA Bill Shows Republicans Suffer Backlash From Obstruction
First Posted: 9/15/11 07:07 PM ET Updated: 9/15/11 07:07 PM ET
WASHINGTON -- The Senate narrowly averted another shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration Thursday, passing a temporary funding bill that Democrats saw as evidence Republicans are feeling heat from the public over obstructionist tactics.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) had threatened to block the bill after the GOP-led House added it to a larger temporary extension of highway funding that was set to expire on Friday.
Coburn argued that the part of the highway bill that funds road beautification was wasteful pork, and wanted it stripped. Ultimately, he settled for an agreement to let states shift that money to nuts and bolts repair projects when the long-term highway bill comes up. The short-term bill passed easily, 92 to 6.
If he hadn't backed down, it could have brought flashbacks to the unpopular three-week FAA closure last month that halted numerous construction projects and put some 70,000 people out of work. It also cost the government about $200 million a week in lost tax revenue -- and that was all after the public was already angry over the the near default brought on by the battle over raising the nation's debt limit.
A Bloomberg poll released Thursday found that the public is laying the bulk of the blame for such governmental gridlock on the GOP, with some 45 percent of Americans saying so.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/15/chuck-schumer-republicans-tom-coburn-faa_n_965018.html
