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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 Industry, John D. Rockefeller IV, Darrell E Issa, Ray LaHood, Dick Durbin
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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: Migration, John McCain, Antonio Villaraigosa, Immigration, Elections
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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: Air Transportation Industry, Federal Aviation Administration, Air Transportation Delays, Elections, Layoffs and Downsizing
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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: Tom Latham, Air Transportation Industry, Republican Party, Politics, White House
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Gun votes by Baldwin, Johnson carried political risks
Milwaukee Journal SentinelLast week's big gun votes were politically painless for at least two kinds of senators: rural red-state Republicans voting against gun control, and coastal blue-state Democrats voting for new gun restrictions. But the politics wasn't that simple for...Tags: John D. Rockefeller IV, Interior Policy, Elections, Republican Party, Politics
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BRIEF: School Safety Measure on Hold in U.S. Senate
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.A gun-control and school safety bill that had the potential to address school-based mental-health services is stalled in the U.S. Senate. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said last week the entire measure is on hold for now. The Senate had already...Tags: Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Health and Safety at School, Interior Policy, Health, Personal Weapon Control
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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: Tom Latham, Air Transportation Industry, Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, DC, Air Transportation Delays
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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: Discrimination, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Justice System, FBI
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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: Lawyers, Justice System, FBI, Sports, Court Preliminary
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The Miami Herald Fabiola Santiago column
Miami HeraldSounds like many Republicans in Congress no longer remember they lost the presidential election. Judging by their comments in the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday on a bipartisan immigration reform proposal, the Republicans are back on the anti-...Tags: Republican Party, Marco Rubio, Politics, DREAM Act, Boston
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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: Justice System, Mark Kirk, National Rifle Association of America, Interior Policy, Mitch McConnell
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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: National Rifle Association of America, FBI, Fenway Park, Religion and Belief, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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