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Senate Votes To Replace Aviation Radar With GPS
plover writes "The US Senate on Monday passed by a 93-0 margin a bill that would implement the FAA's NextGen plan to replace aviation radar with GPS units. It will help pay for the upgrade by increasing aviation fuel taxes on private aircraft. It will require two inspections per year on foreign repair stations that work on US planes. And it will ban pilots from using personal electronics in the cockpit. This just needs to be reconciled with the House version and is expected to become law soon. This was discussed on Slashdot a few years ago."
If we're going to pay my senator $174,000 a year for 4 year term, plus lifetime pension and health benefits, plus other expenses*, I damn well expect them to be there every day. They already get plenty of days off, in addition to federal holidays. Maybe you make more than $174,000 a year, but I promise you, I don't. Considering it's an honor to serve your country, maybe they should rethink their payscale.
*Senators have free access to military jets, which cost anywhere from $500 to $5000 an hour depending on who you ask, among the many other perks
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Hmm, I wonder why. Maybe because the socialized medicine is going to cut his medicare. Yeah, Medicare is a big waste of government money, but the money from one system shouldn't just be redirected to the new bigger system. If you're going to cut it, send it back to the People where it belongs.