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Washington (AFP) - The partial shutdown of the US government could have serious consequences for air safety, according to unions representing aviation workers, which are calling for an immediate resolution to the budgetary stalemate.

Some 800,000 federal employees, including those from the Department of Transport and the Department of Homeland Security which handles air safety and oversees screening at airport checkpoints, have been affected since December 22 when the impasse over President Donald Trump's demand for a southern border wall opposed by Democrats in Congress began.

Those deemed non-essential have been placed on unpaid leave, while others have been forced to continue working without pay.

"This is a matter of safety, security, and economic concern," said the Association of Flight Attendants, which held a protest in the capital Washington on Thursday along with other aviation sector unions, to demand the resumption of normal services.

"Our members and the traveling public are flying within a system that is less safe and secure as long as the shutdown continues," added the letter to Congress from the union, which represents some 50,000 professionals.

"We know all too well the economic hardship that can result from any loophole in our security and any means for inflicting harm by those who view the United States and its citizens as the enemy," it added in a reference to the September 11 2001 attacks.

The association noted the airline industry contributes over 5 percent of the national GDP and supports 11 million jobs, warning: "As the shutdown continues the entire industry will begin to unravel.

"Airlines cannot receive delivery of aircraft causing route cancellations, attrition of air traffic controllers reduces flow of aircraft in the air, and as transportation security officers reduce in numbers we will experience long, slowed security lines."

- Sick days -

The National Association of Air Traffic Controllers (NACTA) meanwhile slammed the crisis, saying it was making difficult conditions even worse for its 20,000 members.

Federal Aviation Administration Academy in Oklahoma City has been closed as a result of the shutdown and simulator trainings have been disrupted.

"Stopping the hiring and training pipeline will exacerbate the current controller staffing crisis," warned the association in a statement.

Even before the shutdown, controllers have been working six-day weeks and 10-hour days at many of the country's busiest airports, NACTA's president Paul Rinaldi said, adding: "This staffing crisis is negatively affecting the National Airspace System, and the shutdown almost certainly will make a bad situation worse."

Travelers meanwhile are beginning to worry about long lines, with a spike in the number of Transportation Security Administration agents calling in sick since the end of December.

"Despite providing essential government services, TSA officers are among the lowest paid Federal employees, with many living paycheck-to-paycheck," Representative Bernie Thompson, the new Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security wrote in a recent letter to the TSA leadership.

"It is only reasonable to expect officer call outs and resignations to increase the longer the shutdown lasts, since no employee can be expected to work indefinitely without pay.

The TSA has tried to reassure the public. A statement on its website on Wednesday said 1.74 million passengers were screened across the day, and 99.9 percent had to wait 30 minutes or less.

"Yesterday, January 9, 2019, TSA experienced a rate of 5 percent compared to a 3.6 percent unscheduled absence rate one year ago on January 9, 2018," it said, lauding "the more than 51,000 officers across the country (who) remain focused on the mission."

With no written constitution in Britain, MPs have entered Brexit's uncharted territory and have begun deploying tactics that even well-informed onlookers find baffling.

In the latest skirmish this week, opposition MPs and rebel members of Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party began a campaign to amend legislation to make it harder for Britain to leave the EU in March 29 with no deal.

After successfully changing a budget bill to restrict the government's taxation powers in a "no deal" scenario, they pledged to force similar amendments to every other bill passing the House of Commons before Brexit.

The moves came after the opposition Labour Party last month used an archaic procedure, "the humble address" to the sovereign, to force the publication of legal advice relating to May's EU withdrawal deal.

When ministers tried to ignore the procedure -- a device last used regularly in the mid-19th century -- they were found in contempt of parliament.

These procedural gambits have been aided by House of Commons Speaker John Bercow, who has a history of seeking to increase MPs' powers to scrutinise the government.

On Wednesday, Bercow ripped up the rulebook to allow MPs to take further action against a "no deal" Brexit.

He allowed an amendment to a motion that precedent suggested was unamendable, demanding May set out her Plan B within three days if her Brexit deal is defeated in the Commons next week.

Labour MP Jess Phillips summed up the attitude of many lawmakers who once dismissed the intricacies of parliamentary regulations.

"I scoffed at people who talked in procedure and when I arrived here I realised that actually it is the procedures of this House and protecting them and developing them that will make our democracy considerably better," she said.

- #FreeErskineMay -

Alice Lilly, a senior researcher at the Institute for Government, said parliament had begun to assert itself since the 2017 election, when May lost her majority in the Commons.

A fragile government combined with the desire of MPs to have their say over Brexit had led lawmakers to act in "more innovative ways".

"We have seen almost a renaissance of focus on parliamentary procedure," she told AFP.

Parliament's legislative experts have reported increased interest from MPs in their work, while they have also started holding regular packed-out briefings for journalists.

The House of Commons is governed by a mix of rules agreed by MPs, traditions and conventions.

These are compiled in Erskine May, a book penned by a Commons clerk of the same name in the late 19th century, which is regularly updated and now runs to almost 1,000 pages.

This year it will be made available free online for the first time, after a long-running Twitter campaign, #FreeErskineMay, galvanised by the procedural wrangling over Brexit.

- 'Out of touch' -

But the rules are open to interpretation, and this week the Speaker made clear his own power as the ultimate arbiter.

One source told the Daily Telegraph that Bercow, who is close to retirement, "is going out in a blaze of glory".

"It is kamikaze. He doesn't care," he said.

Constitutional experts in parliament said the government itself could now use procedure to wriggle out of the demand by MPs that Bercow facilitated.

But, while experts of parliamentary procedure revel in the obscure tactics being deployed, some participants are fed up.

In one debate, Conservative MP Heidi Allen said she was "hopping mad" about her fellow lawmakers' fixation on procedure instead of planning for what happens if parliament rejects May's Brexit deal.

"Do people in this house (of Commons) have any idea how out of touch the general public think we are most days?" she said.

"When are we going to start acting like public servants, doing the right thing and having the debate and getting on with it?"