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Senate Moves Closer to Reauthorizing FAA

The most-notable issue at stake is increasing the number of long-distance flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Senate Moves Closer to Reauthorizing FAA
A Federal Aviation Administration sign hangs in the tower at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on March 16, 2017. Seth Wenig/AP Photo
Jackson Richman
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Jacob Burg
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The U.S. Senate moved closer on May 1 to reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration for five more years, though a host of issues remain with the May 10 deadline fast approaching.

The motion to invoke cloture on the bipartisan $105 billion bill was anything but turbulent as the vote was 89–10.
Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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