Thu, Aug 11, 2011
Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) Introduces “Furloughed FAA
Employees Compensation Act” In The U.S. House
U.S. Representative Frank A. LoBiondo (NJ-02) (pictured) on
Tuesday introduced the “Furloughed FAA Employees Compensation
Act”, which would grant the U.S. Secretary of Transportation
the authority to pay the salaries and related benefits of those
federal employees who were furloughed during the partial shutdown
of the FAA. The shutdown began at midnight on July 22, 2011 and
ended on August 5, 2011. It affected approximately 4,000 federal
FAA employees nationwide.
“For the past two weeks it was important to get these
workers back on the job. Now my focus is to get them back pay and
to ensure this avoidable situation never happens again,” said
LoBiondo, the only New Jersey representative on the House Aviation
Subcommittee.
From the start of the partial shutdown, LoBiondo sought to
broker a compromise between the House and Senate, reaching out to
the Chairmen and Ranking Members of each Chamber’s
transportation committees. Additionally, LoBiondo and his
colleague, Representative Steve LaTourette (OH-18), were asked by
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to intervene. During the
two week impasse, they had numerous conversations with House
Speaker John Boehner (OH-08), Secretary LaHood and Republican
Senators.
The funding for back pay would be come from the Aviation Trust
Fund. LoBiondo was joined by House Transportation &
Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica (FL-07), House Homeland
Security Committee Chairman Peter King (NY-03), Representative
Gerry Connelly (VA-11), Representative Lynn Westmoreland (GA-03)
and fellow New Jersey Representative Jon Runyan (NJ-03) in
introducing the bipartisan legislation.
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