Congress agrees on stopgap funding for FAA workers
Congressional leaders reached agreement Thursday on temporary funding for the Federal Aviation Administration, ending a stalemate that cost 4,000 furloughed federal workers almost two weeks of pay and shortchanged the Treasury of more than $300 million.
?This agreement does not resolve the important differences that still remain,? Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday afternoon. ?But I believe we should keep Americans working while Congress settles its differences, and this agreement will do exactly that.?
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