we ve done in our brain room. spirit, virgin american, front tear and hawaii as well as alaskan airlines are saying we ll give the federal money back to the federal government. is there no river. no requirement that they give that money back to passengers, scott? i think you hit the nail on the head, there is no legislation. normally what happens is we have an faa bill. congress has been not been doing a good job. we ve had 20 extensions of law. they collect money from passengers and it goes into a trust fund to build better airports . this lapsed because of a budget dispute between the house and senate and the airlines are no longer required to collect the tax. however, far be it for me to think consumer might get a little break here, they raise the fares up to cover that.
and airtran effectively have raised their prices by keeping that money. now according to the research we ve done in our brain room. spirit, virgin american, front tear and hawaii as well as alaskan airlines are saying we ll give the federal money back to the federal government. is there no river. no requirement that they give that money back to passengers, scott? i think you hit the nail on the head, there is no legislation. normally what happens is we have an faa bill. congress has been not been doing a good job. we ve had 20 extensions of law. they collect money from passengers and it goes into a trust fund to build better airports . this lapsed because of a budget dispute between the house and senate and the airlines are no longer required to collect the tax. however, far be it for me to think consumer might get a
though this small budget dispute was blown up to hostage like negotiations, at least they re satisfied now. it sounds like john boehner got a good deal. probably not good enough for me to support it but a good deal nonetheless. what are you talking about? that s why we re having the tea party? you can t even support good deals now? it s a good deal but some poor people remain oddly un[ bleep ]. so my constituents won t have it. my goodness. 23 past the hour. welcome back to morning joe. we re here at the nbc news washington bureau and joining us now chief correspondent and host of andrea mitchell reports , andrea mitchell. it s a chill call story. pakistan telling the united states get out. that has been brewing for some time.
believed as i believe that legislation is the art of compromise. he said it probably more dramatically than i did, but the principle of legislation is the art of consensus building, and it is. and you can see it right before our eyes as we re here today. i say that because this budget dispute started way over here. the right wing, tea party folks were just bashing cutting this and that. you saw yesterday that the tea party folks, mainstream republicans in the house said what are you guys doing, back off a bit. we are trying to work something out to fund the government. so you saw the tea party folks voting against the compromise that came in the short term cr. it only passed with democratic help. that s good. that s what henry clay wanted. that s what i want. has the house of representatives shown in their most recent vote on the budget that there is now a three party
9-11, it is a terrorist s dream to have these fuel rods transported around the country. we are having this discussion in the lyndon johnson room, one of your predecessors as democratic majority leaders of the senate, one of the great legislative master s and one of the great compromisers. one of the other great compromisers in the senate came from kentucky, senator henry clay, and he said all legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession. henry clay s seat is now held by mitch mcconnell from kentucky, his junior partner in the senate from kentucky, is a tea party senator who seems to have taken an oath against compromise. how can you find a compromise in the senate on this upcoming budget dispute with factions