Aviation Workforce Development Act News Today

All those people in there. Not saying ceasefire. Host raymond, youre muffled at times. Its difficult to hear you. Richard in srer roana, missouri, democratic caller. Caller yeah. Calling about the students. Doing for the arabs on the reauthorization of the federal Aviation Administration with the renewal deadline friday. Castronova house pass one week extension to allow the senate more time to come to an agreement on sunday. The senate could take up the shortterm extension today. Covid on cspan2...

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...

House representative Mike Collins had a roundtable meeting last Thursday at Jackson EMC to meet with county leaders.

From the column: "DLH (Duluth) has fared better than other airports of similar size but is still operating with 40% fewer flights than in 2019."

(529 improvements) didn’t happen all at once: They’ve been enhanced many times over the years via bipartisan legislative initiatives, which show no signs of slowing.

Twenty organizations are urging House Ways and Means Committee leaders to approve a bill that would extend 529 benefits

Representatives Jimmy Panetta, Mike Collins, Mike Kelly, and Aviation Subcommittee Ranking Member Steve Cohen introduced the Aviation Workforce Development Act, a bill to make training at FAA-certified commercial pilot and aircraft maintenance technician schools a qualified expense for existing 529 Plans. 

Bipartisan act seeks to widen the path to aviation career opportunities

Bipartisan legislation has been introduced in the US House of Representatives to allow aspiring pilots and aircraft maintainers to obtain an expanded, qualified expense under 529 savings plans. 

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced a bill to make commercial pilot and aircraft maintenance schools eligible for 529 plans.