The Hill
Al Weaver
07 May 2024
The Senate’s push to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is coming down to the wire this week as they struggle to strike a time agreement and try to avoid a lapse of the program ahead of Friday’s deadline.
Top senators said that while progress had been made toward extending the FAA’s authority for five years, there remain landmines that they are trying to avoid in order to complete its work by the end of the week. These landmines are in the form of nongermane amendments lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are requesting as part of a last-gasp chance to move priorities on the final must-pass proposal Congress will work on until the fall.
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