Senate approves plan to end FAA furloughs
Source: CNN
Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. Senate approved a measure on Thursday aimed at ending budget-related air traffic controller furloughs that have been blamed for widespread flight delays this week.
A bipartisan agreement giving Transportation Department budget planners new flexibility for dealing with forced spending cuts cleared the chamber unanimously.
The House was expected to take up the proposal on Friday.
The plan additionally would allow authorities to protect 149 control towers at small and medium-sized airports that are slated for closure for budgetary reasons.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/25/politics/faa-delays-congress/index.html
This, of course, is the result of the sequester.
I wish they did not. Let members of Congress test first hand the results of their (in)actions. They are planning to leave D.C. Friday for Spring break - or something.
mucifer
(23,374 posts)It's all about them. Most of them don't give a crap about anyone else who is suffering.
They take vacations 3 times a month. No way they can wait in a line.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)SamKnause
(13,043 posts)Their 2013 schedule includes only 126 days on the job.
Could they be anymore useless ?
City Lights
(25,171 posts)They are puppets of the uber-rich. The rest of us are irrelevant.
Ugh!
tofuandbeer
(1,314 posts)They want the sequester to be successful, so they are going to eliminate the things that affect the rich. GRRRRRRR!
Why didn't the Dems stand up?
mucifer
(23,374 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)And our offices gets bombarded with calls, nope Washington doesn't have a spending problem, they now have a service problem, hurry and turn the money back on. They are frauds, clowns.
Mass
(27,315 posts)preschoolers to fancy pre-schools.
question everything
(47,271 posts)There was a story locally about a woman who was ready to finally move to an apartment and that is now on hold.
meow2u3
(24,745 posts)If not, it's proof positive that Congress cares more about the rich being inconvenienced by flight delays than the poor being threatened with starvation, disease, and death.
RayStar
(417 posts)Until Congress is ready to do away with the entire sequester, let them be inconvenienced by waiting on an airplane flight. Head start and meals on wheels need relief also.
LTG
(215 posts)If I'm reading the article correctly, they aren't reinstating any funding. They are simply telling the Transportation Department to leave the FAA alone and make greater sequester cuts elsewhere.
So, this means bigger cuts in the Transportation budget in other areas? Wonder who or what gets to feel even more pain?
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)It should be clear to everyone that the OWNERS of the USofA demand that their drones -- those who travel to hither and yon in order to peddle their boss's plastic wares, and carry out their boss's financial chicanery and otherwise serve as their flunkies and do their every bidding -- be allowed to get to and fro via the airline system they themselves own, in order not to inconvenience THEM. Or make THEM lose money.
Aside from the regular security irradiations they're exposed to, and the occasional anal probes they suffer from suspicious TSA authoritarians, they should allow Oligarchy Drones safe and timely passage.
Pharaoh saith: ''So let it be written, so let it be done......''
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)Charge the users: business jet owners, vacationers flying to Spring Break vacations, and every business traveler. A few dollars on the millions of flights every year could get aviation to pay its own way.
caraher
(6,276 posts)I have flights scheduled in mid-May and I was expecting that to really suck because of the sequester, but hoped that the annoyance it would cause the wealthy might prompt broad movement to a sane resolution of the budget standoff.
But nooo... I should have expected this craven, selfish act since it only goes to show whom they truly represent. I'll be glad not to face long flight delays, but that's the very least of the evils of the sequester.
earthside
(6,960 posts)The Repuglican House is so craven that even they will probably pass this bill.
Pres. Obama should announce right now that he will veto this selfish legislation.
But he probably won't.
What a bunch of hypocrites.
"Headstart and Meals-on-Wheels ... screw you, but my flight home for my fundraiser better be on time!"
question everything
(47,271 posts)to no avail, it passed the house
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/faa-air-controller-furloughs-bill-vote-90682.html?hp=t3_3