Let me get this straight. Congress intends to go on recess for a month without funding the FAA - a decision that will cost American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, leave critical workers in the air safety community unpaid and stop ongoing, already budgeted construction programs.
On the other hand, Congress refuses to go on recess for a month preventing President Obama from making any recess appointments to the hundreds of unfilled positions in the federal government that have been tied up in a Senate where one Senator can prevent an appointment from being brought to the floor. Among the many casualties will be the top spot at the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. As a result this Agency might never get off the ground.
What is wrong with this picture? Have Republicans discovered a way you can have your cake and eat it too? In Washington Wonderland? You betcha.
Note: On August 4, 2011 Congress reached a bipartisan agreement to fund the FAA through mid-September. http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/08/04/138996699/congress-declares-faa-truce-faas-partial-shutdown-to-end-for-now
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