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U.S. Senate approves bill to end air traffic controller furloughs
Chicago Tribune ^ | 25 Apr13 | Richard Cowan and Doug Palmer

Posted on 04/25/2013 6:05:10 PM PDT by SkyPilot

Edited on 04/25/2013 6:18:55 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate late on Thursday approved legislation to provide enough funding for federal air traffic controllers through Sept. 30 to end furloughs that have brought widespread airline delays. Several Senate aides said an agreement had been reached on a bill giving the Department of Transportation new flexibility to use unspent funds to cover the costs of air traffic controllers and other essential employees at the Federal Aviation Administration.


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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airtrafficcontroller; blackmail; budget; faa; furlough; kenyanbornmuzzie; republicans; sequester; sequesterpunishes; sequestration; wusses
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The Senate told the US military, on the other hand, to go to hell. Furloughs still stand at 14 days for DoD civilians.

1 posted on 04/25/2013 6:05:10 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

the bathroom


2 posted on 04/25/2013 6:08:06 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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To: SkyPilot

Obama will enjoy cutting our military, law enforcement, and other legitimate functions of the government. It looks like he won by making air travel artificially inconvenient under the sequester reduction in spending increases. I would guess that few other areas of the cuts will be noticed by decent people.


3 posted on 04/25/2013 6:09:51 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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Interesting that 1 in 5 families in American can demand Food Stamps, and we give it away hand over fist. Even Chechen terrorists can have all the EBTs they want.

But we can't make payroll for these Americans?

Good for flying public and the air traffic controllers, but this nation's "leadership" (both Presidential and Congressional) is a joke.

4 posted on 04/25/2013 6:10:01 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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They could just take the $500m from DOT marked for ‘Sustainable Development Education’.
What a bunch of morons we have working for us.


5 posted on 04/25/2013 6:10:30 PM PDT by griswold3
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To: SkyPilot

Eighty-five billion is about three weeks of money the fed’s spend. You meant to tell me that out of a budget of 3,700 billion that eight-five billion could effect our nation on all levels as it has? How moronic do the politicians think we are????


6 posted on 04/25/2013 6:10:51 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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63% of all spending is Entitlements, and they are exempt from Sequestration, including Medicaid, ObamaCare, Food Stamps, etc.

So, 37% of mandatory spending must take 100% of the cuts. For the military, it is 17% of the budget but must take 50% of all spending. Some monies are fenced off from cuts (military pay for example), so that complicates the issue.

I am guessing nurses that work on military hospitals, research scientists, and law enforcement won't be having an infusion of cash from the Senate, unless there is a public outcry like there was for Air Traffic Control.

7 posted on 04/25/2013 6:15:09 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Pollster1
"Obama will enjoy cutting our military, law enforcement, and other legitimate functions of the government. It looks like he won by making air travel artificially inconvenient under the sequester reduction in spending increases. I would guess that few other areas of the cuts will be noticed by decent people."

Yes it does; this reads like additional funding rather than reprogramming existing funds from lower priority accounts.

8 posted on 04/25/2013 6:15:53 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: SkyPilot

I’m just thinking it’s all a political scam. Some how, some way, .......... just thinking.


9 posted on 04/25/2013 6:16:23 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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“Any attempts to reduce government spending will be met with swift retaliation against the American people.” If we’re allowed to quote the thoughts in 0bama’s head, I believe this is accurate.


10 posted on 04/25/2013 6:18:18 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: SkyDancer

You would be right. but it’s the WHOLE political system that is a scam. And we are the ones taking it in the ass.


11 posted on 04/25/2013 6:19:46 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: SkyDancer
There are games being played, but when Sequester kicked in halfway through a fiscal year, it was bound to be a disaster sooner or later.

Another article said the Senate acknowledged that 750,000 jobs could be lost by next January due to the cuts, and that does not include the ripple effect on businesses affected such those near military bases, etc.

What does Congress care? They don't get a pay cut. Obama took a 5% pay cut to show "solidarity" but that is a joke. We spend billions so he and Moochelle can live like royalty.

12 posted on 04/25/2013 6:19:50 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: bigheadfred

Meanwhile, the US gummint is sending BILLIONS of dollars to Moslem terrorist states, like Egypt, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Iraq, the rebels in Syria, etc.


13 posted on 04/25/2013 6:24:50 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: SkyDancer; SkyPilot
oh look at the nice pic i took from the peanut gallery of congress in session


14 posted on 04/25/2013 6:25:12 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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Very nice!

I have to watch that on DVD - it is buried behind my Gladiator, Braveheart, and Silent Running DVDs.

15 posted on 04/25/2013 6:27:35 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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They have money to burn as it is. “if you look at the Dept of Transportation’s website, one of the top stories recently was to announce a nearly $500 million grant program that will be focused on “making communities more livable and sustainable,” according to Chicks on the Right.


16 posted on 04/25/2013 6:27:38 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: Westbrook

but you make a harder target to hit if you get to move around will o wisp


17 posted on 04/25/2013 6:28:23 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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To: SkyPilot
This is so unnecessary! The FAA budget has expanded by 50%.
Bonehead can't even outmanuever Obama's draconian tactics. What a shame.
18 posted on 04/25/2013 6:29:11 PM PDT by RginTN
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Good first step. Now furlough the entire staff at the EPA. They’re worthless baggage anyway, doing more harm than good. Then the department of no energy! Then the department of godless socialist education and indoctrination! Then the department of socialist labor unions! Then the department of no agriculture! Then HUD, welfare, foodstamps, freddie and fannie and the Fed, etc, etc, etc!! If any of these unconstitutional federal functions are really useful and necessary to the people, let the states and local governments handle them per the U.S. Constitution!! Despite the claims of the socialist statists, the constitution clearly establishes limits and restrictions on the federal government!!


19 posted on 04/25/2013 6:30:08 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: SkyPilot

im not going to watch those movies until i star in them


20 posted on 04/25/2013 6:30:52 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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