Posted on 04/25/2013 9:16:07 PM PDT by Nachum
The Senate took the first step toward circumventing sequestration Thursday night with a bipartisan vote that would put furloughed air traffic controllers back on the job. The House is expected to take up the measure Friday, and the White House has promised to consider any bill which it receives. The Senate vote came in response to passengers angered this week by long delays at several major airports. If the Senate bill wins House approval and is signed into law by President Obama, the furloughed controllers are not expected to return to work before Saturday
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Now, they should shut down the DOE, NEA and DEA.
They should fire the FAA executives and managers who came up with this stupid idea to try to inflict maximum pain instead of addressing out of control spending.
If only we had some actual leadership in this country!
Bojangles will let it sit on his desk for a few days. Just because he can.
They should remove the $500 million the FAA has budgeted for urban/environmental sustainability.
"The Senate measure would give the administration flexibility to transfer money among Transportation Department accounts, creating a level of fluidity that Republicans say the department has had all along."
gee obama wins. repubs just can’t get the message out. boner will cry.
What a bunch of a****.
Please tell me you made that up.
See page 23. $461 million for environmental sustainability!
Yikes. I sure hope most of that is just B.S. feelgood categorization.
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