Obama pushing for stop gap FAA Funding measure

Has to be the first time I have agreed with Obama.

How about pushing for a whole new resolution instead of another ammendment?? That's the REAL solution we need...

Better yet, how about leaving all the backdoor "Card Check" union payback out of the bill and fund all ATC and safety aspects as a single bill on which all can agree, but leave all the earmarks and infrastructure stuff to a separate legislative bill.

The old technique of attaching dubious riders to necessary bills is one of the reasons the country is broke. If an issue is popular and/or necessary, let it stand on its own but there is no reason to fund entirely empty flights to "no where" in conjunction with safety issues.

Everybody here is correct. Problem with Obama is that he has used the term "SHOVEL READY" before and most weren't and the money was just taken by the states and used for other things, and never followed up on. BUT, everybody is honest so there is no need for followup.

The bill is exactly the same as every other one that has preceded it. The Republican Anti-Union push is what is the problem, as they are seeking to add amendments to the bill to remove the union right that are and always have been in place. If you want to find fault with riders, please put the blame where it belongs. It is not the President or the Democrats who are trying to put additional language on the bill, they are trying to get the funding passed, in the same form it has been for years.

The union provision only reverses a pro-union provision inserted by a non-elected bureaucracy, the National Mediation Board, which promotes intimidation and thuggery to force unionization on all aspects of the air industry. It does so by reversing a long standing provision that unionization requires 50% of all members of the proposed group, but now requires only 50% of those voting and these will not be secret ballots by rules just sent out by the NLRB, also unelected.

Congress is merely reasserting its constitutional authority by returning the rules to those which were traditional and getting the FAA out of the union organization business against the private sector.

Here is a good summary from the leftist Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/09/faa-funding-partisan-union-fight_n_922817.html

Let's get this agenda - funding on the road.
We already have had over 50 cockpit crisis to deal with
as well as 145 incidents at ORD from 2010' where
equipment failed on final such as engines, tires
blackouts and landing gear failures.

Chicago has had over 50 shootings in the big city
on the ground there as well. Are we now a 3rd world
country ?

Welcome to the jungle baby.....