Senate votes unanimously to fix FAA furloughs
Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 20:30
in Mathematics & Economics
The Senate moved quickly Thursday evening to help ease the Federal Aviation Administration's ability to handle automatic spending cuts set forth in the sequester.Senators unanimously approved the "Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013" — a patch to fix the deep cuts that have furloughed air traffic controllers and delayed flights across the country.The bill gives the FAA authority to spend up to $2...