and a lot of things between the obama administration and republicans in congress. republicans say the obama administration should not have unit laterally changed these rules, without the approval of congress. and, democrats believe the president had the right to do that. bill: now, is it cheaper to fly because of this? we mentioned the airline pact. is that still being collected or has it been waived. let s say it should be cheaper to fly because the faa is no longer authorized to collect the airline tax, and, therefore, airline ticket prices should be going down, a number of airlines kept their prices the same. pocketed the difference, and, there is a fight about, will that be reimbursed once the reauthorization takes place. bill: ultimately, is it less safe to fly? is anyone making the argument, with 4,000 workers furloughed? well the secretary of labor, ray lahood said it is safe to fly, and, air traffic controllers are being paid, they are on the job, and plane inspectors are b
people s expectation is that this gets resolved before the end of this week. the feds say air traffic controllers and plane inspectors are still working and that it is safe to fly. the president warns this standoff could end up costing all of us a billion dollars. mike emanuel on the top story at the bottom of the hour tonight. president obama said today we may never get that tax mope back, mike. that s right. he says it s cost 360 million so far. if the congress does not act before recess is over, it may end up costing more than a billion dollars. a bigger concern is probably those 7 a thousand or so workers who have been sent home without pay and are not able to work and collect paychecks. at a time economy is very ticket taxes not being collected by the government, shep. country ought to work about unions. the union issue is very interesting. there was an original transportation bill that the white house issued a veto threat