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Beltway Confidential

White House backs Harry Reid plan to replace budget cuts

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)

Politics

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)

Columnists

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

Diana Furchtgott-Roth -

April 23, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

GOP not likely to back latest Democratic proposal to stop sequester

Susan Ferrechio -

April 23, 2013 4:00 am

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Nev. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 23, 2013, following a Democratic strategy session. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Politics

New Democratic plan would use war savings to offset cuts

Susan Ferrechio -

April 23, 2013 4:00 am

Politics

Flight delays pile up Monday after FAA budget cuts

Scott Mayerowitz -

April 22, 2013 4:00 am

Major tourist attractions are trimming back as they grapple with federal budget cuts -- just in time for Washington's busy season. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Spring tourists greeted by sequester cutbacks

Matt Connolly -

April 20, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Obama budget forecasts $744 billion deficit

Brian Hughes -

April 10, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Morning Examiner: Obama budget to cut billions from Social Security and Medicare while raising trillions in new taxes

Conn Carroll -

April 5, 2013 4:00 am

Politics

Social Security would grow under Obama ‘cuts’

Paul Bedard -

April 5, 2013 4:00 am

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White House backs Harry Reid plan to replace budget cuts

Airline service improves but delays still possible

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

GOP not likely to back latest Democratic proposal to stop sequester

New Democratic plan would use war savings to offset cuts

Flight delays pile up Monday after FAA budget cuts

Spring tourists greeted by sequester cutbacks

Obama budget forecasts $744 billion deficit

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