Set t expire this friday at midnight, senators also approd a oneweek faa extension until may 17th to give the house mor time to take up the longterm measure. Here is the chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce science and transportation committee, senators Maria Cantwell and ted cruz speaking on the floor after final passage. The house of representatives should quickly take it up and t pass it and send to the president s desk for signature. This legislation is a strong bipartisan that includes hundreds of priorities for senators and representatives both republican and democrat. This bill gives the faa the safety tools it needs at a critical time to help bring new Aerospace Technologies to market. I want to thank the staff that spent countless hours hemmerring out this legislation. This was no easy task. As i stated earlier, this bipartisan product was result of many, many months of hard work, late nights, there were many times that it appeared that the bill was not going to mak
Thats our job, is to take votes, to try to make legislation better and to offer improvements to it, and that means amendments. Look, i understand in the house of representatives things operate a little bit differently. Youve got 435 people over tlchlt its a lot harder to have that. This is why weve always bragged about our status as the worlds greatest deliberative legislative body. On paper we are. Historically we certainly have been. Today we are not. Were kidding ourselves, were delusional if we want and expect the American People to believe otherwise. Heres the food news the good news, we still are that entity on paper, as it is envisioned, as its created, as its established and outlined by the constitution. We still are that entity, with our own rules, our own precedence, and our own customs. But alas, the best rules, the best constitutional provisions will amount to dead letter if we ourselves refuse to exercise our own rights and our prerogatives. The muscle of legislative proce
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And underpaying an employee. Nearly three years of partisan gridlock has been ended. A bill has been passed, easing spending guts via the sequestering. Avoiding a shutdown. The president is expected to sign the bill. Senator bauk is the next u. S. Ambassador to shynna. He announced that he would not run for a second term. He will replace gary lock. Those are the headlines. America tonight is up next. On america tonight a winning team, the president picks his own olympic squad, not to compete, but to contest the rules at sochi. Also tonight, the longest journey in the prison system, and the few given a Second Chance at a way out. You know, i know the reality that i could have i could be killed, because im seeing peoples around me get killed, ok . And on the run, those harried travelers in the airport, not all of them are headed to grandmas house. Some are going for gold. I think i paid like 92 in taxes, maybe, Something Like that. 92 to go around the world. Yeah, miles are great. Good e