Senate leadership struggled for days to navigate amendment demands from both parties.
Share on linkedin Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Mark Warner arrives for a news conference. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Imagesthat includes programs to improve safety and protect consumers, ending weeks of grappling that threatened to disrupt air travel. Senate leadership struggled to find a path to reauthorize the aviation safety authorities ahead of Friday's deadline. Senators filed more than 100 amendments to what will be one of the last must-past packages before the election.
The Senate also passed a one-week extension to buy the House time to pass the full package when it returns next week to avoid a short-term lapse.pass the five-year reauthorization, with just four Democratic senators voting against it. Eight senators did not vote. If the authorities had lapsed, roughly 3,600 FAA employees would have been furloughed without guarantee of backpay starting Friday. The FAA would not have been able to collect daily airport fees, an FAA spokesperson told Axios.Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine threatened to block a one-week extension if they weren't guaranteed a vote on an amendment stripping from the bill the addition of five flights to the D.C.-area Ronald Reagan National airport .Sen.
But it was one of the last opportunities for senators to attach and pass their pet pieces of legislation — which led to a flurry of related and unrelated amendments being filed by members of both parties.
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