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• Customs and Border Protection presents plan to eliminate sequester furloughs

  
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  U.S. Customs and Border Protection has submitted a plan to Congress that would eliminate sequester furloughs for the agency despite the $600 million in cuts it will have to make under the automatic spending reductions. Read full article >>        
  3 days ago

• Customs and Border Protection presents plan to eliminate sequester furloughs

  
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  U.S. Customs and Border Protection has submitted a plan to Congress that would eliminate sequester furloughs for the agency despite the $600 million in cuts it will have to make under the automatic spending reductions. Read full article >>        
  3 days ago

• SEQUESTER JESTER: Tornado warnings

  
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  MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – We’ve heard recently about furloughs for FAA air traffic controllers which have been suspended, but there is another agency facing funding cuts: NOAA, which could jeopardize the safety of all Minnesotans when severe weather strikes. Joe Calderone is an employee organization representative ...
  2 weeks ago

• More Fixes Won’t Fix Sequestration’s Harms

  
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  Never let it be said that Congress can’t get anything done because bipartisanship is dead. Look at how swiftly Republicans and Democrats jointly acted when the air traffic controller furloughs started inconveniencing frequent flyers. This isn’t the first time Congress has created a loophole in the law that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Airline Action

  
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  The lead article in today’s New York Times, “House Approves Bill Seeking End to Flight Delays,” shows how quick Congress can act when its affluent constituents are upset. The March sequestration had finally kicked in for air traffic controllers, and the result was interminable waiting periods for flights across ...
  3 weeks ago

• Senate-passed FAA furlough fix bill heads to House tomorrow

  
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  Roll, pitch, yaw, repeat. A couple things. I hope this “Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013″ is clean. One would guess it must be, as it passed with unanimous consent, suggesting it was not all larded up with nonsense. Two, it looks like the bill simply authorizes the agency to use part of its already existing ...
  3 weeks ago

• *** Coffee, Tea, or GOP hypocrisy?

  
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  The same Republicans in Congress who have driven the US and US economy into a ditch by refusing to do anything whatsoever which might hint that Obama was not just dirt in the gears. They demanded budget cuts and refused to tax the greed heads who milk our systems and fail to pay significant taxes. Consequently, parks ...
  3 weeks ago

• Impact of FAA furloughs felt nationwide

  
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  WASHINGTON, D.C. read more
  3 weeks ago

• White House to back FAA flexible-spending plan to end ATC furloughs

  
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  Chicago Tribune: "Hostages on the tarmac!" Has the latest strategy for the Nightmare on Sequester Street backfired? After a week of finger-pointing over flight delays caused by a 4% reduction in the FAA budget from the sequester, Senate Democrats are ready to throw in the towel rather than risk any more anger — ...
  3 weeks ago

• Southwest Airlines CEO voices “frustration” with FAA federal funding cuts

  
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  … Gary Kelly, chief executive of Southwest Airlines Co., attributed the passenger revenue softness it has seen since March to the increased payroll taxes, issues caused by automatic federal spending cuts and the time of the Easter and Passover holidays. Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly (David Woo/The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Republicans still pretending surprise and outrage at FAA cuts they caused

  
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  House Republicans (artists conception) Republicans in the House transportation subcommittee called Federal Aviation Administration administrator Michael Huerta before them on Wednesday to whine that the Obama administration hadnt warned them that sequestration would cause flight delays, which it definitely had , and ...
  4 weeks ago

• National Air Traffic Controllers Association representative says staff shortage created “domino effect” yesterday at D/FW Airport

  
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  … Tom Rizzardo, the Dallas-Fort Worth facility representative of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, says the weather would not have made a difference in yesterday’s diverted flights from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport if there had been enough air traffic controllers working. The ...
  4 weeks ago

• Sequester and FAA Furloughs, Oh My!

  
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  Using a number of patchwork solutions, proposition band-aids, and misaligned bi-partisan agreements the United States Government is still functioning. Through the tumultuous first two quarters of this year, America has seen a lot of financial turbulence while the financial markets try to make the most of a bad ...
  4 weeks ago

• Washington Plays Budget Blame Game on Flight Delays

  
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  FAA says sequestration furlough of 15,000 air traffic controllers is to blame; GOP senator says agency’s "financial state is not as dire" as made out to be. Related:  So the Reason for Mass Flight Delays Is … Corporate Jets
  4 weeks ago

• Delays at U.S. airports as furloughs begin

  
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  Travellers waited more than an hour for flights in New York and experienced delays at other U.S. airports on Sunday evening as furloughs of air traffic controllers began, reducing the ability of busy hubs to handle arrivals and departures, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The furloughs that started Sunday ...
  4 weeks ago

• "President Obama’s sequester scare strategy has been a political flop, but his government keeps..."

  
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  “President Obama’s sequester scare strategy has been a political flop, but his...
  4 weeks ago

• FAA: More than 1,200 flight delays on Monday were caused by sequester

  
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  A Federal Aviation Administration statement confirms that, yep, furloughs forced by sequestration are causing delays at major airports, and "Travelers can expect to see a wide range of delays that will change throughout the day depending on staffing and weather-related issues." For example: Yesterday more than ...
  4 weeks ago

• The FAA updates air traffic issues at airports

  
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  … Air travelers can expect to see a wide range of delays depending at airports across the country as employees are furloughed due to automatic federal spending cuts, the Federal Aviation Administration said today. The Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field are not among the airports ...
  4 weeks ago

• What we’re reading: Six Flags tests weather guarantee, airlines, pilots sue FAA, Boeing starts modifying 787s

  
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  Six Flags tests weather guarantee, airlines, airlines sue FAA, Boeing starts modifying 787s with battery fix
  4 weeks ago

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