According to cnn.com, today, President Obama signed the legislation temporarily restoring full funding to the Federal Aviation Administration. This allowed 4,000 federal employees to go back to work and brought back tens of thousands of jobs in the construction industry and other fields tied to the airport improvement projects that were put on the backburner because of the funding shortfall. The bill was passed with unanimous consent which allows two senators to approve a bill as long as there are objections filed. The political issues that made created the funding shortfall are not resolved as of now. Both Democrats and Republicans have different views on whether or not subsidies should be given to smaller rural airports, specifically in Nevada, Montana and New Mexico. Both parties are also debating whether to make it easier for airline employees to unionize. These issues will be discussed in six weeks’ time. This agreement is the 21st short-term funding extension.
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