Fact Check Mr. Mica

John Mica Republican Congressman from Florida and chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has posted a fact sheet listing 17 Facts outlining why the House of Representatives bears no responsibility for the FAA shutdown. Mr. Mica leads us to believe that he has no clue as to why the US Senate will not agree to his positions. His Fact states

FACT: Senate Democrats are also arguing that the House-passed extension is about a labor provision, but the fact is there is no labor provision in the extension

So why Mr. Mica does the BBC report today that it is the House that is holding up the deal? What does Mr. Mica know that he is skating around in his talking points and spin control. Could it be that the "no labor provision" is really an anti labor provision?

Or then again it might be that the House version cuts funding to airports that the Senate doesn't want cut. Read the Fact sheet and it looks like everyone is in agreement, and yet, they aren't and Mr. Mica knows it. He knows it but doesn't seem to want to come out and say it.

So what is it Mr. Mica? In clear unambiguous terms, what are you hiding?

(In subsequent news stories it seems that Mr. Mica is aware that his bill is objectionable and that the subsidy issue in Ely Nevada is the stickiest point. so the bottom line is Mr. Mica is willing to cost the American government 200 million dollars a week in revenue in order to pick a fight about subsidies totaling 16 million per year! Way to protect our pocket book, sir!)