Every day brings lawmakers closer to the deadline to reauthorize the FAA, and both funding the government and confirming a Supreme Court nominee are on their to-do list for September. But Senate Commerce Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Tuesday he isn’t planning yet for an FAA extension. His concern: Congress will continue to kick the can with more extensions. “We go down that path and I just think it’s really — it ends badly,” Thune said. “There are a lot of issues that need to be addressed … that are dealt with in this bill,” he added. “It’s not in anybody’s best interest, in my view, to put this off — unless it’s being done for political reasons.”
