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Forbes presses Navy on shipbuilding plan
The automatic budget cuts under sequestration have focused attention on many important details of military budgeting. How long are the furloughs? What will happen to on-base services like child care? Others are looking at longer-term questions apart...Tags: Weather, Aircraft Carriers, POLITICO LLC, U.S. Congress, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Brace for delays at O'Hare
Delays may average 50 minutes per flight at O'Hare International Airport this week because of fewer air traffic controllers in the tower until the federal budget sequestration is resolved, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. It would be the...
Tags: Federal Aviation Administration, Layoffs and Downsizing, U.S. Congress, American Airlines, Inc., U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
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LAX flight delays expected as sequestration cuts kick in
Some flights headed into LAX were delayed more than three hours Sunday night because of air traffic controller furloughs required by sequestration cuts, a federal aviation official said Monday. As part of $600 million the Federal Aviation Administration...
Tags: Federal Aviation Administration, Layoffs and Downsizing, Air Transportation Delays, Air Transportation Industry, Los Angeles International Airport
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Sequestration, air travel and finger-pointing
“You need to identify me only as an FAA official,’’ the Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson told me on the phone Monday, explaining that was the order from headquarters in Washington on this sensitive subject. I reluctantly...
Tags: Federal Aviation Administration, Layoffs and Downsizing, U.S. Congress, Air Transportation Industry, Unemployment
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Airlines fly above air traffic doomsday predictions
Criticism intensified Monday that the Obama administration is deliberately inconveniencing and potentially endangering the flying public by going ahead with threatened staffing reductions at airport air traffic towers and radar facilities, instead of...
Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Federal Aviation Administration, Ray LaHood, U.S. Congress, Air Transportation Industry
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About 400 U.S. flights delayed as sequestration takes hold
Sequestration is starting to frustrate air travelers. About 400 flights were delayed Sunday because of air traffic controller furloughs, the Federal Aviation Administration said, and a few more interruptions were reported Monday, though the nation's air...Tags: Federal Aviation Administration, Layoffs and Downsizing, Air Transportation, U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, U.S. Congress
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Air travelers begin feeling the effects of sequestration
Sequestration is starting to frustrate air travelers. About 400 flights were delayed Sunday because of air traffic controller furloughs, the Federal Aviation Administration said, and a few more interruptions were reported Monday at Los Angeles...
Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, U.S. Congress, American Airlines, Inc., Kennedy Airport, Bill Shuster
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LAX official: Expect delays because of sequestration furloughs
The operator of LAX is “very concerned” about the impact the air traffic controller furloughs will have on flight delays, a Los Angeles World Airports spokeswoman said Monday. As part of $600 million the Federal Aviation Administration is...
Tags: Federal Aviation Administration, Layoffs and Downsizing, Air Transportation Delays, Air Transportation Industry, Los Angeles International Airport
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Congress works when laws affect lawmakers
It seems sequestration began as a political game of chicken between President Obama and Congress in which going over the "cliff" had already been removed as a potential consequence. Both the president and Congress were certain the other would blink,...Tags: Federal Aviation Administration, Air Transportation Delays, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Air Transportation Industry
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Congress members urge NASA to spare planetary science funding
This post has been updated. See below for details.Don't cut planetary science funding, members of Congress urged NASA on Friday. In a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), urged the space agency to maintain funding levels for...Tags: Science, Space Programs, NASA, U.S. Congress, Charles F. Bolden, Jr.
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IRS will cease public operations for 5 days due to budget cuts
If you were looking forward to a nice chat with an Internal Revenue Service agent on May 24, you are sadly out of luck. Ditto for June 14, July 5, July 22 and Aug. 30. The tax agency will be closed to the public and almost all employees will be...
Tags: Employees, Layoffs and Downsizing, Internal Revenue Service, Barack Obama, Taxation
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Jobless to feel pinch of federal cuts
SACRAMENTO — An estimated 400,000 Californians who have been unemployed for more than six months soon will be feeling the bite of federal spending reductions. As of April 28, they'll be getting a 17.7% cut in their weekly unemployment benefits...Tags: Unemployment Benefits, Employment Opportunities, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Unemployment
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