>>> on this vote, the yeas are 361, the nays are 41, zero recorded as present. two-thirds being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed.
>> nothing gets lawmakers to act more quickly than when it gets personal. their own flight plans today and complaints from business travelers and lobbyists. this morning, house members overwhelmingly passed the senate fix to faa furloughs. caused by the sequester that they authorized it in the first place. 10% across the board. joining me, nbc capitol hill correspondent luke russert and nbc political producer, casey hunt both from the hill. luke you've watched this for years and so has casey . have you ever seen them act more quickly to get something done?
>> no. it is rather striking andrea, we often talk about here on capitol hill how painful it is for congress to move any substantial piece of legislation to get anything done. in this case when they were facing on average an hour, hour and a half delays to go back to their home districts, they moved pretty quickly. republicans so far taking credit for this. saying their #, boemflightdelays would push this forward. i think you're seeing here in washington , d.c., one criticism that goes against this congress, they're out for themselves, that politicians don't understand us, they don't care about the general public -- in this case you can sort of see a literal example. there's other cuts that have gone forward here with the sequester, cuts to head start that you've mentioned, other types of programs that maybe folks don't necessarily feel as directly as a flight delay. but what we saw here in washington just now, was that if you get in the way of a member of congress going home to their home district on time, they're going to speak up and move with lightning speed. if they get phone calls from small businesses, people that make donations that say, hey, we can't conduct business this way because we're missing our flights and they're delayed, they're going to move with speed. it's sort of a really interesting insight into how washington works.
>> and casey , i'm trying to figure out what this recess is all about. i know it's not memorial day yet. and it's, we're past easter and passover. so what's the deal with the week off?
>> it's just how they do things around here and they don't like to sacrifice that time. and it is really the reason why they moved so fast on this. they knew they were going to have to get out of town and it was an acknowledgement of how politically difficult this problem was becoming. parts of the reason they did it so quickly is this congress really doesn't act unless it's clear that not acting is the political liability. and that's exactly what happened here. if they had left town and we had spent another week and a half with hundreds of delayed flights, business travelers not getting where they needed to be and congress themselves getting home, you wouldn't have seen this kind of action. this was something that was really thrown together even at 5:00 yesterday afternoon. senate aides were telling me that they didn't have a deal. and by 9:00, they had passed it with very little mention, kind of under the radar.
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