Will air traffic control be privatized?

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The Federal Aviation Administration’s authorization will expire in one month, right in the middle of the busy summer travel season, unless Congress passes a multi-year extension or at least a short-term measure to keep the FAA up and running.

All eyes are on the House, where Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster is hoping to preserve a measure he authored that would privatize the nation’s air traffic controllers.

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