Aviation user fees still loom on the White House agenda for 2011, but leaders of the House aviation subcommittee are informing the president that the plan would be rejected in Congress.
Congressional Quarterly has reported that Reps. Jerry Costello (D-Ill.) and Thomas Petri (R-Wis.), the chairman and ranking member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's aviation subcommittee, are recruiting support for a letter urging the president not to propose user fees in his 2011 budget. The Obama administration budget for fiscal year 2010 calls for the air traffic control system to be paid for by "direct charges levied on users of the system" beginning in 2011
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