The Senate has already passed their version of the bill...tougher FT/DT standards, no crap like the Shuster amendment and no union busting like Mica had inserted. Both bills will now be put into a conference committee that will reconcile them to come out with one final version.

We as pilots have a few more friends in the Senate and hopefully they will prevail. What's critical now is a push to our Senators and Congressmen to make sure they know that we expect them to make our wishes known to the conference committee and the offensive parts of the House bill never make it to the final version.

Drop them an email...send them a fax...do it every day. Find out who their legislative coordinator is and send them emails too. If you happen to live near one of their local district offices, stop by and speak with their staffers...politely, of course. In uniform always helps.

If you don't know who your legislators are, go to these two sites:

www.house.gov

or

www.senate.gov

We only have a few short days. Make them count.