We caught up with some Senate Democrats about the full surface reauthorization bill. One idea could prove contentious.

A Senate-passed surface extension through Dec. 11 now awaits House action.

The Senate is teeing up a vote on a surface extension through Dec. 11 as part of a stopgap spending bill.

A string of recent low-altitude flyovers have reopened a familiar fault line between the nation’s aviation safety regulator and the Department of Defense.

Will Congress give federal aviation officials the authority to use air traffic control modernization dollars however they want for an ongoing project?

Congress doesn’t have much time left before August’s recess. And the end of the fiscal year is just around the corner. A surface extension is looking more and more inevitable.

If there’s a shutdown in the cards this fall, Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz says he will push to exempt essential aviation workers from fallout. Appropriators might not go along.