DALLAS — House Speaker Paul Ryan stopped by Southwest Airlines Monday during a fundraising trip to Texas to tout benefits of the new tax law and talk about modernizing the nation’s air-traffic control system.<\/p>\n
Ryan held a town hall meeting with a small group of Southwest Airlines executives and employees and posed for pictures with people training to become flight attendants.<\/p>\n
The visit served as a thank-you to Southwest for extolling a bill passed by the Republican-controlled Congress and signed by President Donald Trump that cut corporate income-tax rates. Southwest paid employees $1,000 bonuses shortly after passage of the bill, which cut Southwest’s 2017 liability for deferred taxes by $1.4 billion and is expected to save the company hundreds of millions more this year.<\/p>\n
Congress is due to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration this year. Ryan said Congress should “re-do the whole FAA” and modernize air-traffic control. He also supported a greater role for the private sector in infrastructure, saying it would be impossible to raise enough taxes to pay for the necessary work.<\/p>\n
Ryan, who was accompanied by Southwest CEO Gary Kelly and House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, took four questions from the Southwest audience but none from reporters. Ryan was in Texas to raise money for House Republicans and talk about lower taxes, a spokesman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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