#FAA reauthorization

[hamadisthings]

URGENT

KOSA is now being discussed to go into the FAA Reauthorization Bill so I BEG you guys to MAKE A LOT OF NOISE ABOUT KOSA TO SHOW THAT WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN ABOUT HOW BAD THESE BILLS ARE. THE CHANCES ARE NOT 0 SO BE LOUD USE www.stopkosa.com

[ivygorgon]

AN OPEN LETTER to THE U.S. CONGRESS

Put the Good Jobs for Good Airports standards in the FAA reauthorization bill!

104 so far! Help us get to 250 signers!

I’m calling on you to stand with working people, passengers and our communities by supporting Good Jobs for Good Airports standards (GJGA) in the FAA reauthorization bill. Airports should and can be strong, vibrant drivers of good jobs in every part of our country. The Good Jobs for Good Airports standards are central to that mission and our nation’s future prosperity. Billions of our public dollars are invested in our nation’s aviation system every year, and we must ensure that our public resources serve the public good. That includes ensuring airports better serve the needs of our families, our passengers, our communities and the airport service workers who make it all possible.

It is evident that our air travel industry is in crisis. From record flight cancellations during summer travel peaks to mountains of lost luggage during the holiday travel season. Airports are critical publicly-funded infrastructure vital to the health of our local communities and global economy, but right now airports aren't working the way they should for travelers or airport service workers — a largely Black, brown, multiracial and immigrant service workforce. These working people, including cleaners, wheelchair agents, baggage handlers, concessionaires and ramp workers, keep airports safe and running smoothly even through a global pandemic, climate disasters and busy travel seasons. Yet many are underpaid and underprotected--even as some major airlines rake in record profit and billions of our tax dollars are invested in our national air travel system.

Domestic passenger numbers increased by 80% between 2020 and 2021, total industry employment fell by nearly 14%, leaving airport service workers to sometimes clean entire airplanes in as little as five minutes as many take on additional responsibilities outside of their typical job duties. Meanwhile, wages have barely budged for airport service workers in 20 years. The Good Jobs for Good Airports standards has the power to transform workers’ lives by ensuring airport service workers have the pay and benefits they need to care for their families.

The Good Jobs for Good Airports standards would help build a stronger, safer, more resilient air travel industry by making airport service jobs good jobs with living wages and benefits like affordable healthcare for all airport workers. Airport service workers at more than 130 covered airports would be supported through established wage and benefit standards, putting money back into hundreds of local economies and helping families thrive. If passed over 73% of wage increases will go to workers making $20 or less, estimates show.

I urge you to include the Good Jobs for Good Airports standards in the FAA reauthorization bill, and help ensure our public money serves the public good.

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[govtshutdown]

Piling on, yes, but the House isn't returning until September 12th, where they will have 18 days to pass all but one of the spending bills or a continuing resolution, as well as "reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration, pass a farm bill and reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program so that home sales in flood-prone areas can continue."

What a mess.

[certainunkownlove2]

There some big KOSA news! they are trying to add the bill to the must pass FAA Reauthorization bill!

I'm having trouble figuring out what faa reauthorization bill means. Do you know what it means? And how it will effect kosa?

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

Senators are trying to add bills that are aimed at boosting kids online safety into a must-pass Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization act.

Two bills aimed at increasing safety of minors online through data privacy updates and rules to limit potentially harmful features are being put forward as amendments to be added to the FAA reauthorization that must pass ahead of a May 10 deadline.

Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) filed their bill COPPA 2.0, which would update the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, as an amendment to the FAA bill Thursday.

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Another bill, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), was put forward as an amendment to the FAA by Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Wednesday, a spokesperson for Blackburn confirmed.

The spokesperson said the two senators are pursuing “all possible paths to see KOSA signed into law,” including by attaching it to the upcoming FAA reauthorization. [...]

[follow-up-news]

If an airplane has to be evacuated, the Federal Aviation Administration says all passengers must be capable of getting out within 90 seconds. But critics say the agency's testing standards have not kept pacewith the shrinking size of airplane seats — which means more people jammed into the cabin — or the changing composition of the flying public. "This is ridiculous. This is not how we travel today," said U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) in an interview. Duckworth argues the FAA's current tests fail to take real world conditions into consideration. "They did not mimic the seat density of a modern aircraft. They had no carry-on baggage. They had nobody over the age of 60 and nobody under the age of 18," said Duckworth, a former Army helicopter pilot who lost both her legs in the Iraq war. "They didn't have anybody with a disability. Of course they were able to evacuate the aircraft in 90 seconds," she said. For more than a year, Duckworth has been pushing a bill known as the Emergency Vacating of Aircraft Cabin (EVAC) Act that would require the FAA to reconsider its airplane evacuation standards. Now that legislation is poised to become law as part of a broader FAA reauthorization that passed the Senate last week. The House is expected to take up the bill as soon as Tuesday.

[beardedmrbean]

WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska slammed his hand on a table and yelled at a Democratic colleague Wednesday to voice his anger over a change to legislation that he said would harm his home state.

Sullivan grew uncharacteristically upset during a public meeting of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, where he accused Democratic Chairman Tom Carper’s staff of killing a provision he had advocated for in the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill.

"I’m getting tired of my state being singled out by this staff, Democrat staff, on everything," Sullivan said.

He said that he had pushed for legislative language that would allow Alaska more time to implement an EPA requirement to transition off of standard leaded aviation fuel. Sullivan wanted Alaska to be exempt from the fuel requirement through 2034, instead of the 2030 nationwide exemption.

The FAA reauthorization, which is making its way through the Senate, has become a grab-bag of priorities for senators.

“This goes to safety of my constituents,” Sullivan said, slamming his hand on the table. “And you guys jump in at the last minute, and I’m so goddamn sick of it. Anything that deals with Alaska, you feel it's open season because the radical environmental groups want to shut my state down. It's wrong."

"It's bull---, and I'm really mad about it," he added.

At one point Sullivan said he wanted to question Carper's staff, a move that is not typically allowed.

“Can I ask your staff right now?" Sullivan said.

“No, I think this markup is coming to an end,” Carper, D-Del., responded.

Ben Dietderich, a spokesperson for Sullivan, said in a statement to NBC News that Alaskans rely on air travel in a state where more than 200 communities are not connected by road.

Sullivan had secured the fuel provision "recognizing a state as big and reliant on older aircraft as Alaska could not feasibly implement this mandate in that timeframe," Dietderich said.

He said that "without any data supporting the move, the Democratic staff of Delaware Sen. Tom Carper, Chair of the Environment And Public Works Committee, slashed Alaska’s exemption in half. Once again, doing the bidding of far-left environmental groups, national Democrats are targeting Alaska and endangering the lives of Alaskans. It is shameful."

In response to a request for comment, a spokesperson for Carper told NBC News: “As Chairman of the EPW Committee and a believer in the principle of treating others as they would want to be treated, Senator Carper has always engaged with his Senate colleagues who reach out on issues that impact their constituents. Chairman Carper takes seriously his job of protecting the health of communities across the country and doing so in a way that understands the needs and impacts on the ground.”

[plethoraworldatlas]

Campaigners have issued a "red alert" over language included in the 2024 Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act that could pave the way toward banning student loan cancellation.

The current draft of the routine bill bars executive branch officials from cancelling or forgiving student loans taken out to pursue flight training or education at the undergraduate level, the Debt Collective warned on Wednesday.

"They're trying to make relief illegal," the group posted on social media.

Buried 1,000 pages in, the language flagged by the Debt Collective comes under the heading, "Prohibition on mass cancellation of eligible undergraduate flight education and training programs loans."

"The secretary, the secretary of the treasury, or the attorney general may not take any action to cancel or forgive the outstanding balances, or portion of balances, on any federal direct unsubsidized Stafford loan, or otherwise modify the terms or conditions of a federal direct unsubsidized Stafford loan, made to an eligible student, except as authorized by an act of Congress," the text reads.

The Debt Collective named Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), and Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) as particularly responsible for the language.

"Forty-five million student debtors need to see this and get very, very loud," the group said.

While the language only prohibits the executive cancellation of a certain subset of loans, experts and advocates warned lawmakers would not stop there.

"Make no mistake, this is a test flight," author and Debt Collective co-founder Astra Taylor wrote on social media. "If they can make student debt cancellation illegal for some people, they will do it for others. Student debtors and their allies need to stick together and stick up for each other."

Taylor urged anyone concerned about the language to contact the legislators flagged by the Debt Collective.

The Debt Collective called��the language a "test run."

"If Congress will stop debt relief for pilots now, they'll do it to nurses tomorrow, teachers the next day, and social workers the day after," the group said.

[mariacallous]

I HATE BLUMENTHAL AND BLACKBURN.

They're trying to weasel in the Kids Online Safety Act into a must pass bill this week. It's a censorship bill that will force all of us to give up our privacy and put kids in danger, and especially has been criticized for basically giving authoritarian powers that could be abused to silence LGBT people. The Heritage Foundation is salivating at this bill and people are literally ignoring their evil because the bill has "Save the Kids" taped over the horrible evil stuff.

Urgent pressure can force them to back off, since there's some who don't want unrelated bills to be snuck into this must-pass. The so called Kids Online Safety Act definitely counts. Use 202-224-3121 or http://badinternetbills.com are as far as I can tell the fastest way to get in contact with Senators.

I did check, and anon is correct that they are attempting to have KOSA added as an amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill.

[icontherecord]

Release of 2021 FISA Section 702 FISC Order

July 21, 2023

Consistent with the Principles of Intelligence Transparency for the Intelligence Community, ODNI, in consultation with DOJ, is also today making publicly available, with redactions, a 2021 FISC Order that examined certain FBI compliance errors involving the querying of U.S. person information. The errors discussed in the 2021 FISC Order preceded the FBI remedial reforms discussed in the 2023 FISC Opinion, which were initially deployed during the summer of 2021, and the 2021 FISC Order thus does not reflect the current status of FBI compliance. Moreover, the compliance issues discussed in the 2021 FISC Order are some of the same compliance issues discussed in the FISC’s April 2022 Section 702 Opinion, which the ODNI released on May 19, 2023. See 2022 Mem. Op. at 26–28. Nonetheless, the Government has chosen to make the 2021 FISC Order publicly available to provide the public with additional information about Section 702.

Additional Information

The documents are posted in full-text searchable format on intel.gov.

2021 FISA Section 702 FISC Order

  Background on Section 702

Section 702 was enacted as part of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA) and most recently reauthorized by the FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017. Section 702 permits the Attorney General and the DNI to jointly authorize, through certifications, the targeting of (i) non-U.S. persons (ii) who are reasonably believed to be located outside the United States (iii) to acquire foreign intelligence information. These certifications are accompanied by targeting procedures, minimization procedures, and querying procedures that are each designed to ensure that the Government’s collection is appropriately targeted against non-United States persons located overseas who may possess or are likely to communicate foreign intelligence information and that any such collection is appropriately handled in a manner that protects privacy and civil liberties.

Under Section 702, the FISC reviews the certifications and accompanying documents to ensure that they meet all the requirements of Section 702 and are consistent with the Fourth Amendment. The Court’s review is not limited to the procedures as written, but also includes an examination of how the procedures have been and will be implemented. Accordingly, as part of its review, the FISC considers the compliance incidents reported to it by the Government through notices and reports.

Additional Information about FISA Section 702 and how the Intelligence Community uses its surveillance authorities may be found in the FISA Resource Library.

[bxbakery]

Senate Passes Bill to Reauthorize FAA and Improve Air Travel

[y2fear]

FAA Reauthorization, Tethered Drones, Public Safety

[droneelevations]

Drones And Weapons, A Dangerous and Potentially Costly Mix

Operating a drone with a dangerous weapon attached is prohibited under Section 363 of the 2018 FAA Reauthorization Act, effective since October 5, 2018. Violators may face civil fines of up to $25,000 per offense, unless they have obtained explicit approval from the FAA Administrator for the activity. A "Dangerous Weapon" refers to any object that can potentially cause death or severe physical harm.

[npi]

FAA reauthorization bill now law thanks to the legislative stewardship of Senator Maria Cantwell

President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan bill reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration into law on May 16th, funding the agency through 2028 with the goal of improving air travel and consumer protections. The legislation also reauthorizes the National Transportation Safety Board through 2028. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), who chairs the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee,…

[wimpydave]

How The 2024 FAA Reauthorization Bill Affects General Aviation

[southjerseyweb]

NFFE Works with Congress to Permanently Safeguard South Jersey FAA Techology Center

“Not only does the FAA Reauthorization ensure that the facility will remain permanently operational in South Jersey, but it also guarantees local …