Tag: Fiscal Policy

Beltway Confidential

Obama: ‘We have no money’

Joel Gehrke · April 29, 2013 4:00 am

Hospital

Panel: Maryland hospitals should absorb sequestration cuts

Andy Brownfield · April 28, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Ezra Klein on MSNBC: ‘The Democrats lost the sequester fight’

Charlie Spiering · April 26, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

FAA using furloughs to politicize sequester, lawmakers say

Michal Conger · April 26, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Senate approves bill to end FAA furloughs

Susan Ferrechio · April 25, 2013 4:00 am

‘Darkmarks’ spending boosts biggest defense contractors

Bill Allison · April 25, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Morning Examiner: Democrats looking to retreat on FAA furloughs

Conn Carroll · April 25, 2013 4:00 am

Deal to lift furloughs on airport workers may be near

Susan Ferrechio · April 25, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - This April 22, 2013 file photo shows travelers standing in line at the LAX International Airport in Los Angeles. Under pressure, the White House signaled Wednesday it might accept legislation eliminating Federal Aviation Administration furloughs blamed for lengthy flight delays for airline passengers, while leaving the rest of $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts in place. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

White House says it’s open to fix on FAA furloughs

David Espo, Jim Kuhnhenn · April 24, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

White House backs Harry Reid plan to replace budget cuts

Brian Hughes · April 24, 2013 4:00 am

Penny MacDonald was supposed to depart Tampa International Airport on Monday April 22, 2013 at 1:40, but her flight to Toronto had been delayed to 3:10. She passed the time by knitting at the gate. A combination of furloughs of FAA air controllers due to sequestration and bad weather in the northeast caused hiccups in the commercial airline system on Monday. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Edmund D. Fountain)

Airline service improves but delays still possible

Scott Mayerowitz · April 23, 2013 4:00 am

In a report issued in February, the Office of Personnel Management announced that the federal government paid more than $156 million in 2011 for hours that career civil service employees spent working for their unions, up from $139 million in 2010 and $129 million in 2009. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Diana Furchtgott-Roth: Stop paying federal air traffic controllers to do union work

Diana Furchtgott-Roth · April 23, 2013 4:00 am