What: All Issues : Corporate Subsidies : Airports : HR 1979. Private Airport Control Towers/Final Passage of a Bill to Provide a Retroactive Public Subsidy to Private Companies That Build Air Traffic Control Towers. (2002 house Roll Call 243)
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HR 1979. Private Airport Control Towers/Final Passage of a Bill to Provide a Retroactive Public Subsidy to Private Companies That Build Air Traffic Control Towers.
house Roll Call 243     Jun 20, 2002
Progressive Position:
Nay
Progressive Result:
Loss
Qualifies as polarizing?
Yes
Is this vote crucial?
Yes

House Republicans wanted to reimburse airports for the construction and maintenance costs of privately-run control towers, and to pull money from the federal Airport Improvement Program to do it. Progressives supported this idea in principle, but they disagreed with a provision in the law that reimbursed airports for these costs even if they had constructed their control towers before 1996. They felt this amounted to a handout to private companies running these control towers. Though Progressives voted against it, the bill passed 284-143.
Issue Areas:
CORPORATE SUBSIDIES — Airports

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