LaHood: “Get off the beach, get out of your mobile homes,” Get back here to pass FAA funds.

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This is too rich. (Apologies for the source.)


As FAA Shutdown Continues, Obama Official Pleads With Congress to End Stalemate

Fox News
August 03, 2011

The Obama administration ratcheted up the pressure on Congress Wednesday to return from a monthlong vacation and end an impasse over funding the Federal Aviation Administration, which is in the 12th day of a partial shutdown that has left more than 70,000 airport construction workers and 4,000 FAA employees out of work.

During an appearance at the White House briefing room, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood repeatedly urged lawmakers to pass a “clean” funding bill and then work out their differences.

“Get off the beach, get out of your mobile homes,” he said to laughter from reporters. “Maybe I should have said RVs? Come back to Washington, pass the bill.”

At issue are two provisions to the funding bill that would eliminate millions in subsidies for rural airline services and make it more difficult for airline workers to unionize – both of them opposed by Democrats.

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