2007 Government Affairs Memos by Date
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Dec. 18, 2007
FY08 Omnibus Appropriations Legislation Update
Sturgell Hearing Postponned
Dec. 17, 2007
Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations
Summary
Senate to Hold Sturgell FAA Administrator Nomination Hearing
Dec. 13, 2007
Fiscal Year 2008 Appropriations Update
New York ARC
Report Delivered to DOT Secretary Peters
Dec. 11, 2007
House Passes Representatives Lowey’s legislation, H.R. 1413, to Establish
an Airport Employee Screening Pilot Program
Dec. 5, 2007
Congressional
Outlook on Appropriations, FAA Reauthorization, Clean Water Act, Airport
Badging, and Airport Employee Screening
GAO Runway Safety Report Press Conference
Nov. 16, 2007
Representative Mark Kirk (R-IL) Introduces Airport
Badging Legislation (H.R. 4177)
Nov. 15, 2007
ACI-NA Testimony before the
House Aviation Subcommittee on "Aviation and Airport Holiday Travel"
House Aviation Subcommittee Hearing on "Aviation
and Airport Holiday Travel"
House Oversight and Government Reform Hearing on "One Year Later: Have TSA
Airport Security Checkpoints Improved?"
White House Announced Congestion and Passenger Initiatives for the Holiday
Season
Nov. 14, 2007
House Homeland Security Hearing: "Cover Blown:
Did TSA Tip Off Airport Screeners about Covert Testing?"
FAA Reauthorization Update and FY 08 Appropriations
Update
House T&I Committee to Hold Hearing on H.R. 2421,
the "Clean Water Restoration Act"
Nov. 8, 2007
House Homeland Security
Hearing on "The Progress and Pitfall of the Terrorist Watch List"
FAA Order on LGA Flight
Limitation
ACI-NA & ATA to Hold
Holiday Travel Press Conference
Nov. 6, 2007
FAA Reauthorization Update
Fiscal Year 2008
Appropriations Update
Nov. 2, 2007
House Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Transportation Security Hearing: "A Frontline Perspective
on the Need for Enhanced Human Resources and Equipment" Clean Water Act
(H.R. 2421) Update
Oct. 31, 2007
House Science and Technology
Committee Hearing on "Aviation Safety: Can NASA Do More to Protect the
Public?" House Homeland Security Committee Hearing on "Transportation
Worker Identification Credential Program" ACI-NA to Participate in DOT
Conference Call on Upcoming Holiday Travel Season
Oct. 24, 2007
House Aviation Subcommittee
Hearing on "Aviation and the Environment: Noise" and Senate Homeland
Security Hearing on "Watching the Watch List: Building on Effective
Terrorist Screening Systems"
Oct. 18, 2007
Senate Commerce
Committee Oversight Hearing on the Department of Transportation
Oct. 17, 2007
House Aviation
Subcommittee Hearing on GA 17Oct2007GA 17Oct2007“NextGen:
The FAA’s Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Contract”
Oct. 10, 2007
Oct. 10
House Hearing on Contractor-Operated FSS
Senate FAA
Reauthorization Update
Sept. 27, 2007
Senate Hearing
on Airline Delay and Consumer Issues, New York Aviation Rulemaking Committee
Sept. 26, 2007
House Aviation
Subcommittee Hearing on Airline Delays and Consumer Issues
Sept. 24, 2007
House Passes
FAA Reauthorization Extension, H.R. 3540
Sept. 20, 2007
- House Passes H.R. 2881, the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2007
- HR 2881 Statement of Administration Policy
Sept. 19, 2007
Lampson/Poe Amendment Update
Sept. 18, 2007
Coalition Letter Opposing
Amendment to HR 2881
Sept. 13, 2007
ACI-NA Thanks FAA
Administrator Blakey for Service
Sept. 12, 2007
Sept. 4, 2007
Aug. 28, 2007
- ACI-NA Pledges Assistance to FAA for Runway Safety
- FAA Request Industry Follow-Up to Aug. 15 "Call To Action" Meeting
Aug. 7, 2007
- Aug. Congressional Recess, Aviation Industry Coalition Letter on ARFF, ACI-NA Discussion Forums
- ARFF Coalition Letter
Aug. 1, 2007
House Ways and Means
Subcommittee Hearing on Aviation Taxes
July 31, 2007
House Homeland Hearing on the
Registered Traveler Program
July 27, 2007
House and Senate
Overwhelmingly Pass
July 26, 2007
House Homeland Security Hearing on ‘Private Sector
Information Sharing'
July 25, 2007
House Passes FY2008
Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Legislation
July 24, 2007
House Aviation Hearing
on Aging Air Traffic Facilities
Congressional Leaders Urge Airports to Lobby for FAA
Reauthorization
July 19, 2007
Senate Finance Hearing:
"Industry Perspectives on Aviation Financing"
July 17, 2007
Senate Hearing on Air Service
to Small and Rural Communities
July 12, 2007
- Senate Finance Hearing, FY08 House and Senate Transportation Appropriations Mark-Up
- Transportation Worker Identification Credential Hearing (TWIC)
July 11, 2007
Letter from FAA Regarding Runway Incursion
July 5, 2007
What's Next in the FAA
Reauthorization Drive
June 28, 2007
- House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Passes H.R. 2881FAA Reauthorization Act of 2007 and Bill Summary
- US Visit Exit Hearing and Letter to House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson
June 25, 2007
U.S. Conference of Mayors
Urges Congress to Raise PFC Ceiling
June 22, 2007
House Science Committee Passes
FAA Research and Development Act, US- Visit Exit Hearing, Passengers First
Commitment Website Update
June 20, 2007
House T&I Climate Change
Act, Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, Senate
Hearing, Passengers
First Commitment Website
June 15, 2007
House Passes DHS Appropriation;
Senate DHS Appropriations-CBP Update
June 14, 2007
Senate Department of Homeland
Security Appropriation, FAA Research and
Development, TSA Screener Cap Letter, CBP
Letter Supporting 200 Additional Officers
June 6, 2007
Department of Homeland
Security Appropriations
June 5, 2007
Aviation Coalition Letter
Regarding NextGen Funding
May 25, 2007
Iraq War Spending Supplemental
Passenger Facility Charge Fact Letter, Senate FAA
Reauthorization (S. 1300) Amendments
May 18, 2007
FY 2008 House Homeland
Security Appropriations Subcommittee
May 16, 2007
- Senate CST Markup of S. 1300, the Aviation Investment and Modernization Act
- House Hearing on Global Climate Change and Energy Independence
May 10, 2007
- The Hill-Passenger Facility Charge Op-Ed, The Hill-Passenger First Commitment Advertisement
- Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing on FAA Budget Performance
May 9, 2007
Summary of House Hearing on
the Future of Air Traffic Control Modernization
9-11 Legislation Conference
Update
Passenger Facility Charge
Coalition Letter
May 2, 2007
Summary of DRAFT Senate
Reauthorization Bill
Request to Contact
Congressional Representatives (PDF file)
April 25, 2007
FY 2007 Emergency Supplemental
Appropriations – Conference Report
House Aviation Subcommittee
Hearing on Essential Air Service and Small Community Air Service Development
Programs (PDF file)
April 24, 2007
House Subcommittee on Transportation Security Protection
Mark-Up
April 19, 2007
Employee Screening
Press Conference and House Hearing
April 18, 2007
House Subcommittee on
Transportation Security Protection -Airport Security: Necessary Improvements
to Secure America's Airports
March 28, 2007
House Aviation Subcommittee
Hearing on FAA Reauthorization
Immunity For Passengers
Reporting Suspicious Incidents
March 26, 2007
ACI-NA Reauthorization
Principles - Planning for the Future: Launch to NextGen
March 22, 2007
House Appropriations Hearing on the FAA FY08
Budget, Senate Aviation
Subcommittee Hearing on FAA Modernization, House Aviation Subcommittee Hearing on FAA's Operational and Safety
programs, Secretary Peters'
Statement on the U.S. - EU Open Skies Agreement
March 20, 2007
Senate CST Hearing on Promoting Travel to America: An
Examination of Economic and Security Concerns – Part II
GAO Report on Reagan National
Airport: Update on Capacity to Handle Additional Flights and Impact on Other
Area Airports
March 20, 2007
ACI-NA Joins Coalition
Encouraging NextGen Funding
March 14, 2007
FAA Financing hearing 9-11
bill Iraq funding
March 9, 2007
Lowey employee screening pilot
program bill
March 8, 2007
Update on Passenger Rights
Legislation and GAO Report on TSA's Staffing Allocation Model
Senate Hearing S4 Lowey
legislation and DOT OIG Study
March 7, 2007
Letter to Members from ACI-NA
President, Greg Principato.
Feb. 14, 2007
Administration Sends FAA
Reauthorization Bill to Congress.
Feb. 12, 2007
ACI-NA sent a letter to Senate
Commerce Committee Members in support of the $450 million allocation for
in-line EDS installation in S.509, the Aviation Security Improvement Act.
Feb. 8, 2007
Senate Appropriations
Subcommittee on Transportation Hearing on President’s Proposed FY08 DOT Budget
Feb. 7, 2007
Aviation Security Improvement
Act Introduced in the Senate
GAO Testifies on DHS Management and Programmatic Challenges
Feb. 5, 2007
Administration Issues Proposed
FY2008 Department of Transportation and Department of Homeland Security
Budgets
Commissioners to Honor
Chairman Thompson on March 27
Jan. 16, 2007
GAO's Airport-Related Studies
FAA Reauthorization 2007
Jan. 9, 2007
House and Senate Consider
Legislation Implementing 9/11 Commission Recommendations