the faa has november long-term funding because the house and senate haven t come to an agreement on a bill since 2007. house republicans want provisions in the bill to make it harder for aviation and railroad workers to unionize. there have been 20 routine short-term funding extensions since then. but this time the stop gap was hijacked by republican house transportation chairman john micah. he inserted a poison pill into the many ez sure and admitd doing so in order to, quote, send the senate a message that we want this finally resolved. senate democratic transportation chairman fired back in a letter
the faa has november long-term funding because the house and senate haven t come to an agreement on a bill since 2007. house republicans want provisions in the bill to make it harder for aviation and railroad workers to unionize. there have been 20 routine short-term funding extensions since then. but this time the stop gap was hijacked by republican house transportation chairman john micah. he inserted a poison pill into the many ez sure and admitted doing so in order to, quote, send the senate a message that we want this finally resolved. senate democratic transportation chairman fired back in a letter saying, you need to think about this very, very carefully. any consequences resulting from
nfl season after four-month labor lockout between players and owners, well, a key vote could break the stalemate. and we re also learning this. tiger woods fires his long time caddie steve williams and guess what? he speaks out about the abrupt move. we will hear from the caddie in just five minutes. millions of pro football fans are hoping today, well, that it will be the day the nfl s labor lockout will end. players and owners expected to vote on a deal that will hopefully say the 2011 season. david mattingly is live in atlanta where the negotiations are going on. what is the word, david? reporter: kyra, everyone watching and waiting so far. the players ended yesterday without having a final vote. if they vote today, it will take at least half of the players voting yes for the collective bargaining agreement. then all eyes will be here on atlanta where the owners will be meeting about an hour from now. it will take 75% of those owners, that is 24 out of the 32, to ratif
disappointed that the house and senate haven t done more, especially to create jobs. basically, this is that the liberal wing of the party is very unhappy with the president for things that he did not do. other than saying the republicans are worse, what s your best pitch to reignite the left of the party? yeah, candy. great question. and if you asked the president, is he disappointed that he hasn t got more done, he would say, sure i am. but let s just look quickly at what has been done. we stopped combat operations in iraq, that s a big deal. we ve passed equal pay for women, that s a big deal. 4 million more american low-income kids with health insurance. that s a big deal. health insurance reform. stabilized the financial system. we ve strengthened our alliances abroad that had been really tattered after ten years. an economy that was shrinking in gdp and losing jobs is now growing again. we ve had private sector job growth for eight months. so we re not where we want to be yet,
also include infrastructure. the main part of the president s proposal when he wanted to be president, now that he is the house and senate haven t really acted on that plan, spending perhaps hundreds of billions of not $1 trillion on infrastructure. what is unclear is how that is going to be structured. how much the federal government is going to spend, how much state and local governments are going to spend and where that money is going to come from. on top of all of that, congress has to address spending on disaster relief, immigration and a host of other items including budgeting and the debt ceiling, all to start 2018. julie: thank you. jon: health care is just one of the many issues on president trump s agenda. many of them putting republicans and democrats at odds. the hope is that lawmakers find common ground. will they be able to do it? i m doing now by editorial director for the