of the faa, john micah now says unless republicans get their way on the union stripping thing, even a temporary extension, this time, would put the screws to small town airports, cutting support for the few commercial airlines that serve them. it's going after, it so happens are in states represented by powerful senate democrats who get a say in these matters.thai reid's home state. another airport in glenndive, montana, not near anything else except north dakota. montana is represented by maus baucus who is in the finance committee. and alamagordo, new mexico, represented by democratic senator tom udall, who serves on the senate transportation committee, which makes tom udall the counterpart for john micah, from florida. this is not really overall a fight about airports or subsidies for rural air service or whether the people of ely can ever get on a plane. this is not even a fight really about the faa and regulation of air travel in this country. this is very clearly a fight about union rights and the republican will in 2011 to strip union rights away at every opportunity. as long

on the two-year anniversary of the stimulus being acted, john micah certainly sounded like he wanted more infrastructure money. >> i stood on the floor of the house of representatives and begged them to double the money for infrastructure, then condense the amount of time to get the projects out. >> the congressman putting out a statement at the time as well saying funding for infrastructure appropriately invested can effectively create jobs. so if you are an infrastructure geek, if you say like bridges that don't fall down, this kind of thing is good news, because this is the republican chairman in the house saying he supports infrastructure. his complaint about the stimulus is that it didn't have enough infrastructure spending. so now in a country that's infrastructure ranked 23rd, ugly bridge in china, with senate democrats proposing a multi-billion bank for infrastructure investment. with republicans putting an advocate in charge of infrastructure pending in the house, now in that great context, that republican congressman you just saw is set to put out his proposal for how he wa

but this time the stop gap was hijacked by republican house transportation chairman john micah.serted a poison pill into the many ez sure and admitted doing so in order to, quote, send the senate a message that we want this finally resolved. senate democratic transportation chairman fired back in a letter saying, you need to think about this very, very carefully. any consequences resulting from such an action will fall squarely on your shoulders. right now, you are in control of the agency's immediate future. if the agency has no funding by tomorrow night, john micah will be responsible for putting thousands out of work. after sending a scathing e-mail to a female kol colleagcolleagu west is not backing down, in fact, h he's doubling down. there's in uh propaganda out there and we will debunk it tonight. boy, i'm glad we got aflac huh. aflac! oh, i've just got major medical... major medical. ...but it helps pay the doctors. pays the doctors, boyyy! [ quack ] oh yeah? what about your family? ♪ we added aflac, so we get cash! it's like our safety net... ♪ to help with the mortgage