Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Thursday that Congress has reached a deal to end the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration.
"I am pleased to announce that we have been able to broker a bipartisan compromise between the House and the Senate to put 74,000 transportation and construction workers back to work," the Nevada Democrat said in a statement. "This agreement does not resolve the important differences that still remain. But I believe we should keep Americans working while Congress settles its differences, and this agreement will do exactly that."
The FAA partially shut down on July 23 after Congress failed to pass an extension of the agency's existing budget authorization. Congress has done that simple extension, with no strings attached, 20 times in the past four years.
At issue had been a provision, which Republicans put in a longer-term FAA funding bill, that rolls back some union rights. On top of that, Democrats were angry that Republicans inserted into the short-term funding bill a provision to cut subsidies for air service to 13 rural communities. Democrats on Wednesday accused Republicans of "government by hostage-taking."
The shutdown left 4,000 FAA employees furloughed and brought more than 200 construction projects to a halt. An estimated 70,000 other private-sector workers were also affected. Air traffic controllers and safety inspectors remained on the job, since the agency still has money from another pool of funds to pay them. The shutdown cost the government about $30 million a day in uncollected airline ticket taxes.
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