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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NASA unveiled on Wednesday the designs for its latest rocket, the successor to the retired space shuttle.

The rocket, called the Space Launch System, will rely on a liquid hydrogen and oxygen fuel system, and NASA hopes it will one day take astronauts to Mars.

Its first flight is planned for 2017.

Your morning transportation speed-read:

The National Transportation Safety Board is calling for a ban on cellphone use by commercial drivers.

Three Transportation Security Administration workers in Florida were arrested for allegedly being involved in a drug ring.

Airlines collected fewer bag fees in the first three months of the year.

Another Amtrak train hit a truck this week in Illinois, though no injuries were reported.

Transportation associations that had once hoped for more substantive reforms were breathing a sigh of relief Tuesday.

The House passed a bill to avert another FAA shutdown, but didn't provide back pay to workers furloughed earlier this month.

The legislation would extend the FAA through January and highway programs through March.

The Homeland Security secretary said children under the age of 12 will be patted down less frequently.

Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) praised the funding extension for highways and the FAA, although long-term appropriations measures will be delayed.