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September 12, 2007


By an 88-7 vote, the Senate today passed its FY'08 Transportation Appropriations bill with one important modification: At the urging of ALPA, it added the “Oberstar language” that ALPA has supported for any legislative directives to change the mandatory pilot retirement age rule.
The Senate version of this bill now must be reconciled with the House-passed Transportation Appropriations bill, which does not address changing the rule. (The Oberstar language is contained in the House FAA reauthorization bill.) ALPA will provide a more detailed status update on this legislation in a future FastRead.