A group pushing for Congress to provide back pay to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) workers who were furloughed last month says the House could soon approve a bill to do just that, even as another round of furloughs looms in the Senate.

The upper chamber has a bill to extend the funding of the FAA, which is set to expire Friday at midnight, as well as federal highway programs. But Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is threatening to hold up a vote on the bill because of a disagreement about provisions in the highway portion of the bill designed to enhance roadways with bike paths and greenery.

If that impasse is not resolved in the next day or so, FAA workers will be furloughed, as about 4,000 were for nearly two weeks last month.

Your morning transportation speed-read:

The Department of Transportation is moving to ban electronic cigarettes on flights.

The Federal Aviation Administration has cleared Boeing's new 747 model for flying closer to other airplanes.

An airline passenger who was detained on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks says she was racially profiled.

New York City is launching a bike share program.

Boeing is not endorsing a House Republican bill limiting the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) powers. 

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Tom Coburn each said the other could stop looming furloughs.

A House subcommittee voted to require technology that would prevent security scanners from capturing images of passengers’ bodies.

Additional Pentagon budget cuts will hinder national security and cause massive job loss, according to the aerospace industry.

"One senator" could prevent the Senate from approving a bill to extend funding for highways and the Federal Aviation Administration, the latter of which expires Friday, Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid said in a speech on the floor Wednesday, referring to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla).

Reid (D-Nev.) said under Senate rules, a hold Coburn is placing on a bill to fund the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) could prevent lawmakers in the chamber from voting a bill to extend the FAA's funding through January and highway spending through March. The deal, which has already been passed by the House, is widely expected to be approved in the Senate and is being hailed as a victory by transportation advocates after the partial shutdown of the FAA last month.

But Reid said Wednesday that Coburn's objection to the $6.9 billion FEMA bill because of its price could cost more emergency management dollars.

“I am in a situation where I can’t get to this bill until Friday, when it expires,” Reid said of the FAA bill.

Paul called on Congress to pass the bill meant to counter the National Labor Relations Board’s complaint against Boeing.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was one of 179 passengers on a plane that was evacuated Wednesday at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., according to several published reports.

A spokesman for the Supreme Court told local news affiliates that Ginsburg, age 78, was on board United Airlines Flight 586 from Dulles to San Francisco when the pilot reported an engine fire to air traffic control. The plane was still on the ground, but passengers were evacuated from the plane using emergency slides before they were returned to the terminal.

Gingsburg, the oldest justice on the Supreme Court, reportedly used one of the slides, but neither she nor any of the other passengers were seriously injured in the incident.

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