looks like FAA bill and safety/NPRM stuff is safe (for now)

[HA25]

If I am reading this correctly, the Senate seems to have fixed the Schuster (R) Amendment 6 issue (among other problems) in the house version of the FAA bill.... From what I am reading, the entire language was struck from the House version and replaced by the Senate version.

http://www.aviationnews.net/?do=headline&news_ID=190514


dare I say Yay??

 

[jetwash]

It won't be safe until it is signed into law.

Even then it will be at risk. Don't let your guard down for one minute when you are dealing with politicians.

 

[Whine Lover]

" From what I am reading, the entire language was struck from the House version and replaced by the Senate version."

Where, exactly, are you reading this part?

Didn't see that in your link (?).

YKW

 

[Raoul Duke]

there are two verions of the bill, the house and senate and they contain different language. Senate can't just strike the language and send it on to be signed.

 

[ackattacker]

Correct. There is a process for reconciling the different versions of bills and they will revote on it. However I think it's *likely* that if the Senate has struck the language the House isn't going to put up a big fight about it.

http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_law.html

Conference

Once a bill leaves the House and the Senate, it must be checked. If anything in the two versions of the bill differ, in any way (even in something as minor as punctuation), the bill must be reconciled. The house in which the bill originated is given a copy of the bill with its differences. For example, if the House originated a bill, then sent it along to the Senate for consideration, and the Senate made changes, the bill is sent back to the House. If the changes are minor, they might be accepted by the originating house with no debate. If changes are of a more substantial nature, however, a conference is called for.

In a conference, a number of Representative and a number of Senators meet to work out the differences in the two versions of the bill. The people in the conference committee are known as managers. The number of managers from each house of Congress is of little concern, because the managers from each house vote separately. So, for example, a conference committee might have ten Representatives and seven Senators. Managers are not allowed to substantially change the bill. They may add an amendment from one bill into the other, or take out an amendment added but not in the other. But they cannot add new amendments to both versions of the bill. When there is disagreement, new text, which might be a compromise between two versions, can be proposed. But the changes must be consistent with the bill itself.

Following negotiations, the managers make reports back to their houses, that they were able to agree on the bill, able to agree only on some parts of the bill, or were unable to agree at all on the bill. If the first case, the bill is revoted upon in both houses. If the latter two cases, the bill may go back to a new conference committee, referred back to the committees in the two houses, or it may just die because the differences are too vast to bridge.

 

[Mr Hat]

There's no way these rules will come out the way they are.....safety, saving lives and battling fatigue are nothing next to the power of the almighty dollar and there are a whole lot of dollars at stake here.