Do-nothing Congress votes to do nothing about the FAA
The airline industry has been pleading with the House of Representatives and the Senate to please do their job and provide guidelines and funding for an improvement of the air traffic control system (ATC). Unfortunately, they are just too busy to do their jobs and voted to do nothing with the FAA and the ATC problems.
A bad case of the FAA reauthorization legislation blues
There is now little chance that the agency will receive much needed funding for modernization before late 2009.
Finally, Senate schedules air traffic legislation
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that he plans to bring the FAA reauthorization bill that has been stalled in committee up for a vote next week.