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  • Air-Controller Furloughs to End as FAA Acts on New Law

    Air-traffic controller furloughs were suspended yesterday as the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration acted on legislation designed to work around across-the-board spending cuts that kicked in last month.

  • House Joins Senate Voting to End Air-Controller Furloughs

    Congress passed legislation to end days of flight delays stemming from air-traffic controller furloughs, letting the Federal Aviation Administration work around across-the-board spending cuts that kicked in last month.

  • House Joins Senate Voting to End Air-Controller Furloughs

    The U.S. House passed legislation to end air-traffic controller furloughs, joining the Senate in letting the Federal Aviation Administration work around across- the-board budget cuts to end days of flight delays.

  • Lawmakers Call for Halt to Traffic Controller Furloughs

    Top U.S. lawmakers in both parties are questioning the Obama administration’s decision to furlough air-traffic controllers to comply with automatic budget cuts, with some calling for congressional action to stem the resulting wave of flight delays.

  • Immigrants Said to Wait 15 Years for Legal Status in Plan

    As Senate negotiators prepare to unveil their proposal to rewrite U.S. immigration laws, members of a House group are considering a path to citizenship of at least 15 years for many undocumented immigrants now in the U.S.

  • Obama Tax Cap Seen Slowing Issuance From 2010 High: Muni Credit

    Sugar Land, Texas, plans to pump $50 million into new parks around the city of 85,000, just the kind of project President Barack Obama wants to revitalize the U.S. economy by spurring investment in aging infrastructure.

  • Camp Says Obama Made Positive First Step on Entitlements

    President Barack Obama’s proposal to change the formula for calculating cost-of-living increases for Social Security is a “positive step forward,” House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp said.

  • Medicare Is Probing Advantage Rates Leak, Tavenner Says

    Medicare is probing the possible leak of a government decision regarding health insurers’ payments for next year, administrator Marilyn Tavenner said.

  • Cantor Backs Municipal-Bond Tax Break as Needed for Projects

    U.S. House Republican Leader Eric Cantor said curbing the tax exemption given to the $3.7 trillion municipal-bond market may undermine the ability of state and local governments to finance public-works projects.

  • Van Hollen Open to Medicare Cuts in a Tax Deal (Transcript)

    Representative Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, said during an interview with Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend, that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s recent bid to remake the Republican Party is little more than public relations while expressing a willingness to consider one Republican proposal to restructure Medicare.

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