FAA Crisis Resolved
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FAA Crisis Resolved
August 4, 2011New York Times: F.A.A. Impasse That Hit 4,000 Ends, for Now
"WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has reached a patchwork agreement with Congressional leaders to end a 13-day partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, said Thursday. The agreement signals an end, at least for a few weeks, to a standoff over policy issues that had left 4,000 agency employees out of work, idled tens of thousands of workers at hundreds of airport construction projects and cost the federal government more than $350 million in lost taxes on airline tickets. Congressional officials said the deal arranges rubber-stamp passage by the Senate on Friday of a bill that was approved by the House last month, extending the aviation agency’s operations through Sept. 16."
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