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