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The sequester isn't going away

After Democrats held the edge on the fiscal cliff deal back in January, many on Capitol Hill seemed to expect that Republicans would quickly fold when budget cuts from the sequester started hitting home and hitting the headlines.  But that certainly didn't happen in the recent battle over furloughs of ...

Congress acts to stop air traffic controller furloughs

In the first big legislative battle over $85 billion in automatic budget cuts from the sequester, the Senate on Thursday night approved a plan to stop furloughs of air traffic controllers, as lawmakers in both parties joined to make sure air travelers weren't slowed by long delays in the skies. ...

Democrats join calls to end FAA furloughs

As more commercial airline flights were delayed on Wednesday, members of both parties in the Congress urged an end to the furloughs of air traffic controllers, as Senate Democrats and the Obama Administration indicated support for some kind of fix at the FAA. "If Congress wants to address specifically the ...

The sequester fight returns in the skies

Desepite all the warnings about hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and red flags galore from the Obama Administration about the $85 billion in across-the-board cuts, Life With the Sequester went along fairly quietly until this week, as furloughs for air traffic controllers have brought the fight over automatic budget ...

Collision course on FAA sequester cuts

Republicans and Democrats traded charges on Monday over sequester cuts to air traffic controllers at the FAA, as after weeks of political skirmishes over automatic budget cuts, this fight over air travel threatened to quickly develop into a full blown political storm. "Why is President Obama unnecessarily delaying your flight?" ...

Criminal Complaint released in Boston Marathon bombings

Federal officials on Monday filed the first formal charges against the surviving Boston Marthon bombing suspect, charging 19 year old Dzhokar Tsarnaev with conspiring to use weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of property resulting death. The thirteen page document also includes a number of details that indicate what ...

Questions after the Boston Marathon bombings

The political aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings is just beginning, as both parties wait to see how it may impact a number of different issues, ranging from the conduct of anti-terrorism work by the U.S. Government to immigration, gun laws and more. In the wake of terrorist attacks, it ...

Obama praises capture of Boston bombing suspect

Vowing to find the answers for why two brothers bombed the Boston Marathon and terrorized residents of that city, President Obama had high praise for the work of police in Boston and a variety of law enforcement agencies, as officials tried to make sense of what he described as a ...

Democrats yank gun bill off Senate floor

A day after the U.S. Senate rejected a series of gun control plans backed by President Obama, Democratic leaders decided to put that work on hold and move on to other legislation, unable to muster enough votes to push gun plans past Republican opposition. "This debate is not over," said ...

A real gun on the U.S. Senate floor

As the Senate on Wednesday rejected a series of gun control plans by President Obama, the votes took place 163 years to the day that a real gun was pulled out during a debate related to slavery, throwing the floor of the Senate into disarray and making headlines around the ...

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