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WRAPUP 2-U.S. Congress looking for quick fix to flight delays
Reuters(Adds details on Senate discussions, details on controllers) By Richard Cowan and Doug Palmer WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate leaders are frantically trying to pull together a plan to alleviate widespread airline flight delays - brought...Tags: Air Transportation Delays, eBay Inc., Employees, Politics, Economy, Business and Finance
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Villaraigosa in Washington on immigration, transportation issues
WASHINGTON -- Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa may be nearing the end of his term, but that isn’t keeping him from traveling to the nation’s capital to push two of his pet causes – an overhaul of immigration laws that would provide...
Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Immigration, Migration, White House, Politics
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Senators point blame, solutions to air traffic delays
WASHINGTON -- As delayed flights jammed up air travel, Senate Republicans on Tuesday blamed the White House for furloughing air traffic controllers, as Democrats offered a new proposal to replace the sequester cuts that have begun to affect ordinary...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Air Transportation Delays, John Thune, John Cornyn, Politics
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WRAPUP 1-U.S. budget cuts back in spotlight as flight delays mount
Reuters* "We can't do this for long" - airline CEO * FAA says delays not as bad as feared By Mark Felsenthal and Alwyn Scott WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Wednesday backed a plan that would temporarily eliminate...Tags: Air Transportation Delays, Politics, Transportation, Southwest Airlines Co., Jay Carney
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Flight delays bring U.S. budget cuts back into spotlight
ReutersBy Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday backed a proposal to temporarily eliminate spending cuts disrupting U.S. air travel, while politicians in Washington scrambled to avoid blame as the effects of the cuts...Tags: Parties and Movements, Air Transportation Delays, U.S. Congress, White House, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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As flight delays increase, so does the finger-pointing in Washington
Reuters* FAA cuts bring political risks for Obama, Republicans * Republicans accuse president of manufacturing a crisis * White House blames Republicans for spending cuts By John Whitesides WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - Federal officials reported flight...Tags: National Government, Air Transportation Delays, Princeton University, Politics, U.S. House of Representatives
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Suspicion shifts as charges dropped against ricin suspect
Paul Kevin Curtis said he didn't even know what ricin was. Certainly not a lethal poison. But jail can be a swift teacher. "I thought they said 'rice,' " Curtis said of the federal authorities who arrested him last week on charges of trying to...
Tags: Paul Kevin Curtis, Trials, Defense Intelligence Agency, Ricin Mail Attacks (2013), Crime, Law and Justice
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Poison letters suspect in Mississippi released
A Mississippi man who had been accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Obama, a U.S. senator and a Mississippi judge was set free Tuesday and charges against him were dropped as authorities converged on the home of another man. Paul Kevin...
Tags: Defense Intelligence Agency, Ricin Mail Attacks (2013), Justice System, Barack Obama, Court Preliminary
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How a bill becomes slaw
Before we move off the issue of gun control — and it's dead for now, believe me, for reasons this column will make clear — let's take a close look at just how something as popular as expanded background checks failed to pass the U.S. Senate...
Tags: Interior Policy, Parties and Movements, John Cornyn, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Patrick J. Toomey
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Resolute, but with an asterisk
WASHINGTON -- The nation demonstrated again last week how resolute it can be when threatened by murderous terrorists -- and how helpless when ordered to heel by smug lobbyists for the gun industry. Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's deadly rampage through...
Tags: Terrorism, Fenway Park, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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Baucus' exit drains hope for tax reform
This post has been updated, as indicated below. Six-term Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, announced Tuesday that he won't run for reelection in 2014. You may now kiss any hope of a sweeping tax reform bill...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. Congress, Politics, Health Care Reform (2009), Justice System
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A Measure Of Courage In Senate On Guns
The U.S. Senate minority's squelching of debate and votes last week on any meaningful legislation to reduce gun violence has unfortunately become the rule, not the exception. Not much can get done in the Senate under the tyranny of the minority, when it...Tags: Mark Kirk, Patrick J. Toomey, U.S. Congress, John McCain, Republican Party
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