“I am pleased the Senate came to an agreement with the House leadership to
resolve the crisis regarding the tens of thousands of furloughed FAA
workers. It was absolutely necessary to reach a compromise and pass a
reauthorization bill, given that nearly 75,000 jobs were on the line.
Certainly, it is unfair to jeopardize these hard working FAA employees’ ability
to pay their mortgage, send their kids to college and make car payments, merely
because of an unwillingness to compromise on the part of the Republican House
leadership,” said Congresswoman Brown.
Under a deal Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid reached today with House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), the
Senate will pass the House bill that includes cuts to rural flight service to
airports in Nevada, West Virginia and Montana, yet I am pleased to hear that
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will be able to use his authority to waive
the airports from these cuts.
“Although this agreement does not resolve the important differences that still
remain, Americans need to keep working while Congress settles its differences,
and this agreement will do exactly that, and may God Bless America,” the
Congresswoman concluded.