{"id":129885,"date":"2016-02-21T14:14:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T21:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/21\/you-can-thank-republicans-for-all-that-spacious-leg-room-on-air-flights.html"},"modified":"2016-02-21T14:14:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T21:14:45","slug":"you-can-thank-republicans-for-all-that-spacious-leg-room-on-air-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/21\/you-can-thank-republicans-for-all-that-spacious-leg-room-on-air-flights.html","title":{"rendered":"You can thank Republicans for all that spacious leg room on air flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, no, that&#39;s probably unfair. But the GOP head of the House Transportation Committee did just successfully get a Nay vote on a proposal that would let the FAA study the health and safety issues around increasingly narrower airline seats with less leg room, and allow the FAA to set minimum standards for same. <\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.), the chairperson of the committee, counts air transport PACs as his largest contributor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/02\/21\/backed-by-airline-dollars-congress-rejects-effort-to-address-shrinking-legroom\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/lEU0mpGSVStPXNyp3X3zLzRNEB4kRps-6WZxdrzRdI8QQfjvjz5serEObDOWi_GeAI_cqKIjy9ZF7hGfE1lCjWi2Z5xClXoEXqAQFYBbGLPBTHcEVT-eGJx6Ol0WDQLvjG35jeeqBszYoYrRp-pDGe_EZqKjpLQ=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/02\/21\/backed-by-airline-dollars-congress-rejects-effort-to-address-shrinking-legroom\/'>Backed by Airline Dollars, Congress Rejects Effort to Address Shrinking Legroom<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe amendment would have required the government to study shrinking legroom and allowed it to set a minimum dimension for commercial airline seats.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/aqirFRHytnT'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, no, that&#39;s probably unfair. But the GOP head of the House Transportation Committee did just successfully get a Nay vote on a proposal that would let the FAA study the health and safety issues around increasingly narrower airline seats with less leg room, and allow the FAA to set minimum standards for same. Not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/21\/you-can-thank-republicans-for-all-that-spacious-leg-room-on-air-flights.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You can thank Republicans for all that spacious leg room on air flights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10704,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/15\/you_can_eat_out_any_time.html","url_meta":{"origin":129885,"position":0},"title":"You can eat out any time you like, but you can never leave","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Nov-06 4:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It seems that air traffic controllers at Denver International have an interesting dilemma. 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