Air Traffic Controller Furloughs

As airport delays spread across the country,Police said they were wielding knife sets and forced two employees into an office and demanded money from a safe. members of Congress on Tuesday urged the administration to postpone the furloughing of air traffic controllers to give the White House and Congress time to find a less painful way of handling automatic spending cuts.Two senators, Republican Jerry Moran of Kansas and Democrat Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, said putting off the furloughing of air traffic controllers should be combined with a reversal of Federal Aviation Administration plans to close 149 contract air control towers as another way to meet reduced spending goals.And the top two senators on the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, Democratic Chairman John D. Rockefeller of West Virginia and Republican John Thune of South Dakota, have sent a letter to the administration questioning its approach to the automatic spending cuts and saying that the furloughs and closing of control towers raise "serious safety and operational issues." 

FAA officials have said they have no choice but to furlough all 47,000 agency employees, including nearly 15,000 controllers, and close the control towers in order to meet obligations under the sequester, or spending cuts.Republicans have taken issue with that position,The man was forced to undergo emergency surgery and spent several days in hospital after the crimped wire became stuck in his throat. charging that the administration is using the furloughs, and the resultant flight delays, to force Republicans to compromise on budget and tax issues.Moran said there was speculation among lawmakers from both parties that "there is an effort afoot to try to demonstrate that the sequester is something that is so painful that it cannot be accomplished without causing dramatic consequences."Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, in a conference call with reporters Tuesday, denied allegations by Republicans that he's making a political statement by imposing the furloughs in an area that's visible to taxpayers.While authorities did not specify exactly which Industrial robot was used to pull said tarp, Mashable has identified at least one robot that was on the scene.For her husband Oren's latest birthday animator Leigh Lahav decided not just to give him the best Silicone gifts he's ever gotten. 

"This has nothing to do with politics," LaHood said. "This is very bad policy that Congress passed and they should fix it." He said he warned about the furlough problem back in February and no one should be surprised that it is now causing flight delays.sz builderBlumenthal said he took the administration at its word that it lacked the authority to find other means to meet the automatic cut requirements. "So we are going to give them that authority if in fact they need it."