Congress sends Obama bill to end airport delays caused by furloughs

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Source: washington post

The House of Representatives on Friday approved and sent to the president legislation intended to end a week of turmoil at several of the nation’s major airports, where the sequestration furlough of air traffic controllers caused long delays for thousands of passengers.

The vote came 16 hours after the bill won unanimous support in the Senate, and the White House said the president would sign it.

“Ultimately, this is no more than a temporary Band-Aid that fails to address the overarching threat to our economy posed by the sequester’s mindless, across-the-board cuts,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said.

The daily furlough of 1,500 air traffic controllers to achieve $200 million in sequestration savings from the Federal Aviation Administration’s budget became a test of wills between Congress and the administration.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/congress-sends-obama-bill-to-end-delays/2013/04/26/27f94706-ae81-11e2-a986-eec837b1888b_story.html

[gateley]

1. I almost wish he wouldn't sign it --

but those who need to travel for REAL work (at jobs they actually show up for) would pay, too.

[earthside]

2. Flying Congress members cannot be inconvenienced.

Meals-on-Wheels, Head Start .... meh.

If Pres. Obama had any intestinal fortitude he would absolutely veto this bill.

But he won't.

And politicians wonder why they are held in so much disdain.

[frylock]

3. what a fucking joke, and this is just the start..

anything and everything that inconveniences these shitlumps will be reviewed and made to be exempt from sequestration.

[Skittles]

6. CORRECT

[benld74]

4. VETO VETO VETO VETO VETO VETO VETO

[indypaul]

8. AMENAMENAMENAMENAMENAMEN n/t

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5. So the public gets a small taste of the austerity to come and says "yuck"

I thought the GOP and Fox News were telling us that everybody wants sharp cuts across the board so we can give more tax cuts to Mitt Romney? Deficits, debt, yadda yadda.

Now we've been able to watch Congress work in a bipartisan manner to put a little tiny Bandaid out there to shut everybody up until the next artificial GOP-created crisis comes along in a week or two.

[JDPriestly]

7. If Obama signs this and lets the poor suffer in sequester . . . .