The Federal Aviation Administration authorization expires on Friday and the House approved a backup plan.
passed a one-week extension to avoid the air travel funding legislation from expiring at midnight Friday.
“There’s a sense of urgency around it, but there’s also this sense that people want to feel like they have their voices heard,” saidWhile Thune said there’s a possibility the Senate may need to pivot to a short-term resolution, he said negotiators are still attempting to find a way forward this week, and there could be objections to a short-term resolution.
“It incorporates more than 200 priorities from different senators, both on the Republican side and the Democratic side,” said Sen. Ted Cruz , the ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, who has been playing a role as a deal-maker in an attempt to get the bill through the Senate. “I think we are going to end up with a strong bipartisan vote at the end of the day, obviously on cloture last week, the vote was 89 to 10 and I think that augurs well for the ultimate disposition.”
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