Twenty-four hours on, this empty Budget has completely unravelled and Labour's failure to act will hit families hard.
So this week the FAA has managed to turn the first stages of a 5% budget cut into hours of delays at the nation's airports.
Although they have suffered their share of slings and arrows from recent budget cuts and shorter hours, the American Library Association reports that in the decade ending in 2009, there was actually a net public library increase.
The Democratic Senate reached a compromise on the budget deal in the wee hours of the morning.
Hours later, he passed the key budget measure with 308 votes, seven short of a majority, as 321 lawmakers abstained.
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It could then drop some of its often weak non-news programmes, which take up half the hours broadcast and a third of the budget.
Just at a time when people out of work need libraries for retooling, learning how to put resumes together and capitalizing, in many cases, on free internet use, budget cutbacks and scaled-back hours are seen as the only option.
Europe - after marathon hours of negotiating - has agreed a long-term budget.
The budget-saving proposals will see library opening hours reduced and charges introduced to bring residential parking in line with other local authorities.
If the global economy could vote, would it have voted for the messy budget compromise that US politicians cobbled together in the first hours of 2013?
In an ironic self-perpetuating cycle, parents need to pay for child care so they can afford to work long hours, but the child care itself places a strain on their budget that must be corrected with increased income.
These kinds of meetings are likely to become increasingly common in the years ahead as the federal government seeks to pare a budget deficit currently running at the rate of about a billion dollars every six hours.
Ending the marathon negotiation with a personal declaration of victory to reduce the budget while protecting the UK rebate, Mr Cameron was asked whether these tense hours of debate might inform his bigger agenda about reforming the EU and Britain's place within it.
If you are spending an average of over 2 hours per day replying to e-mails, then you may want to reassess how you budget your time.
The White House was conducting an online chat it labelled "Office Hours" in an effort to connect to web users about the often dry issue of the debt and budget negotiations.
Service members in Afghanistan are already seeing the effects of anticipated budget cuts in everything from the equipment they are issued, or not issued, to the hours the chow halls are open.
On the evening of budget day, India's commercial capital, Mumbai (Bombay), was plunged into darkness for hours by a power cut.
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