In a statement on the Senate floor today, Chairman John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV criticized Delta Air
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This thread is not about petitioning the NMB for rule changes. It is about Delta’s allies in the House of Representatives taking legislation hostage, refusing to let a bill pass. insisting on anti-worker language that didn’t even pass the House and allowed nearly 4,000 hard working FAA employees to be furloughed; halted hundreds of critical airport safety, capacity, and air traffic control projects; suspended payments to hundreds of small businesses dependent on reimbursement from the FAA for their work; delayed construction projects for which tens of thousands of workers were employed; and forgone more than $250 million in aviation tax revenue that is critical to supporting our aviation system.
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Public statements from you and Chairman John Mica say that you are “willing to use every tool at your disposal” to negotiate a final FAA bill, yet one tool you have so far been unwilling to use is the normal legislative process. More than 120 days ago, a bipartisan group of Senators was appointed to the conference committee between the Senate and House FAA bills. These Senators are eager to negotiate in earnest, but their House counterparts have not been named more than 4 months after the House passed their FAA bill. The lack of conferees from the House is the main obstacle standing in the way of Congress’ ability to produce a bipartisan, long-term, extension of the FAA.
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You sure didn’t validate your argument on the Op ed pieces main subjects
it appears so you are
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Well Delta stick by there provision with their powerful allies in Congress and continue to insist on changing the new election rule, causing another shutdown. On September 16, Delta's powerful allies in Congress could continue to insist on a new election rule, causing another shutdown.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-faa-shutdown-and-the-new-rules-of-washington/2011/08/04/gIQAJIUOvI_story.html
But Mica overreached. Letting his anti-labor ideology take over, he tried to use the FAA bill to overturn a decision by the National Mediation Board to rescind an old rule that had made it unusually difficult for airline workers to organize. Delta Air Lines furiously lobbied Congress to intervene.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-faa-shutdown-and-the-new-rules-of-washington/2011/08/04/gIQAJIUOvI_story.html
But Mica overreached. Letting his anti-labor ideology take over, he tried to use the FAA bill to overturn a decision by the National Mediation Board to rescind an old rule that had made it unusually difficult for airline workers to organize. Delta Air Lines furiously lobbied Congress to intervene.
