The ads, airing in four states, criticizes the NLRB and the Labor Department for burdensome regulations.

A House committee will take up the Transportation Security Administration funding bill this week, the committee announced Monday.

At its hearing scheduled for Wednesday, the House Homeland Security Committee's Subcommittee on Transportation Security will take up the TSA Authorization Act of 2011.

As part of the Department of Homeland Security's budget request for 2012, TSA would have received $7.9 billion. But earlier this year, House Republicans, who have pushed to privatize airport security, cut the agency's funding cut by $270 million. 

The hearing Wednesday is scheduled for 10:30 a.m in Cannon House Office Building.

The fight over the funding of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) retakes center stage this week, with the House expected to vote on a short-term extension of the beleaguered agency's funding through December.

The bill, a 22nd extension of an FAA appropriations bill that expired in 2007, is expected to contain back pay for workers who were furloughed last month when the agency was partially shut down for nearly two weeks.

The House GOP's bill does not contain controversial labor provisions that have stalled a new long-term FAA bill or cuts to the flight subsidies for rural airports that held up the last round of FAA funding this summer.

Romney said the NLRB lawsuit against Boeing was an "egregious example" of the president's failed labor policies.

Your morning transportation speed-read:

Jitters on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks forced a flight to make an emergency landing in Denver.

Security was boosted on Amtrak trains as well.

More D.C. residents are ditching their cars.

Researchers argue that it's drivers, not cars, that waste fuel.

President Obama is trying to get Congress to approve $50 billion in new spending on roads, bridges and railways.

The House of Representatives will vote next week on a bill to extend funding of the Federal Aviation Administration through December and provide backpay to workers who were furloughed for nearly two weeks during a partial shutdown of the agency earlier this month.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) introduced a short-term extension of FAA funding, the 22nd for the beleaguered agency since 2007, that extends FAA funding through Dec. 31. The measure runs longer than the last three-week measure, but cuts the FAA's overall budget by 5 percent.

The measure does not include controversial labor provisions or cuts to the flight subsidies for rural airports that held up the last round of FAA funding this summer.

An impasse in Congress over the current extension led to the agency being partially shut down for 13 days in August. About 4,000 workers were furloughed, and an estimated 70,000 construction workers were placed out of work.

Your morning transportation speed-read:

Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole says he is optimistic about everything but terrorism.

Arizona highway bonds have been downgraded.

The trucking company being sued by Amtrak over a crash is Maine is asking for more time to answer the suit.

A court has rejected Swedish automaker Saab's request for bankruptcy protection.

The Republican chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said Thursday evening that he is opposed to the call for a national infrastructure bank President Obama made in his speech to a joint session of Congress.

Rep. John Mica (Fla.) said he thought Congress should encourage individual states to create their own infrastructure banks, arguing as he has in the past that it would give them more flexibility to design transportation projects that fit their own needs.

“While the President reconfirmed that our highways are clogged and our skies are congested, his well delivered address provided only one specific recommendation for building our nation’s infrastructure,” Mica said in a news release. “Unfortunately, a National Infrastructure Bank run by Washington bureaucrats requiring Washington approval and Washington red tape is moving in the wrong direction. A better plan to improve infrastructure is to empower our states, 33 of which already have state infrastructure banks.”