{"id":6010,"date":"2011-08-04T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/congress-reaches-deal-to-end-partial-faa-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2014-08-04T12:27:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T12:27:29","slug":"congress-reaches-deal-to-end-partial-faa-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/congress-reaches-deal-to-end-partial-faa-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Reaches Deal to End Partial FAA Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Capitol Hill lawmakers have ended a partial FAA shutdown <\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced a deal that will end a partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A partial shutdown of the <strong><a href=\"\/tag\/faa\/default\" target=\"_blank\">FAA<\/a> <\/strong>began on July 23 after Congress failed to pass an extension of the agency&#8217;s existing budget authorization. The budget failed to pass over disagreements concerning union rights and subsidies for air service to rural communities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While those disagreements still persist, a tentative agreement will<br \/>\nreturn 4,000 furloughed FAA employees to work and allow more than 200<br \/>\nairport construction projects to resume, according to Reid.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown cost the government an estimated $30 million per day and affected an additional 70,000 private sector workers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0CBS News<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Capitol Hill lawmakers have ended a partial FAA shutdown &nbsp; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced a deal that will end a partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration. &nbsp; A partial shutdown of the FAA began on July 23 after Congress failed to pass an extension of the agency&#8217;s existing budget authorization. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97168516,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010\/revisions\/97168516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}