Credit unions whose membership includes significant numbers of Federal Aviation Administration employees mobilized lower cost loans, fee reductions and other measures for them recently as an ongoing legislative dispute left the workers without paychecks.

Legislation financing the agency and many of its construction projects around the nation remained blocked as lawmakers failed to resolve labor and fiscal disputes in the bill before they left Washington for the balance of summer.

A few legislators who had not yet left the capital passed a stop gap measure that President Obama signed. But that measure expires on Sept. 16 and thus did not represent a lasting resolution of the impasse.

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