Originally Posted by rickair7777

And that means it will probably pass the house unless somebody really hates it enough to mobilize a bunch of their congressional buds to oppose it. That's unlikely since it's not really contentious with the public and doesn't cost taxpayer money. This means the house horsetrading probably already happened.



Since it's in the house version, the senate has a good chance of including it too. Unless somebody in the senate wants to oppose it badly enough to enough mobilize forces and horse-trade with the house. Again this is something that not many folks want, but nobody really hates it either (except maybe pete and the squad who just want all boomers to eff off and die). Absent hate, if it got this far, it's prospects are looking up.

I'll be honest, I don't know why these reps are pushing this, other than to give then appearance of "doing something, anything" about the pilot shortage. Yes the effect is real on small towns, like the one my parents live in. I guess a variety of industry groups want it too... basically all of them except A4A. But it's obviously somebody's pet project, and not too many people will pee on those guys' wheaties over something that doesn't really matter to them and doesn't cost them anything.