U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) recently committed to a week of floor time in March to debate reauthorization of the FAA. The agency has been running on temporary reauthorization since 2007. While the House passed a reauthorization bill last year, it was held up in the Senate.
Alphabet groups, such as the National Business Aviation Association, have persistently advocated for FAA reauthorization and aviation system modernization, and have long supported Congressional modernization proposals to adjust fuel taxes from 22 to 36 cents-per-gallon to help fund system transformation, “while wisely avoiding the creation of a giant, expensive and overly burdensome user fee bureaucracy,” according to NBAA officials.
