Commercial airline flights started backing up and delayed some travelers Monday, a day after air traffic controllers started going on furlough because of government spending cuts.
The separate California State University system, which is facing its own financial nightmares, recently canceled some days of instruction in order to put professors and other staff members on furlough.
Mr Clinton had seen how George Bush senior used the release on furlough of Willie Horton, a convicted murderer, to destroy his Democratic rival for the presidency, Michael Dukakis, and had worked hard to reclaim crime as a Democratic issue.
Instead, the FAA is even imposing the controller furlough on every airport equally, not prioritizing among the largest and busiest airports.
Anne Heche, as a working mom on a brief furlough from her duties, and Sigourney Weaver, as a divorced teacher in need of a fresh life, find particular pathos in their roles.
In addition to Friday, the IRS plans to close its offices and furlough employees on June 14, July 5, July 22 and Aug. 30.
And just when they need more from you, you're stuck with falling revenues, leaving you with impossible choices that keep mounting up -- putting projects on hold or having to furlough key employees.
The White House could keep the controllers on duty simply by allocating more furlough days to these other non-essential workers.
Cuts in overtime forced the customs agency to close several booths and the situation will worsen after furlough notices go out on March 7, she said.
More than 863 flight delays were attributable to furlough-related staffing shortages on Wednesday at air traffic facilities in Chicago, New York, Washington, Cleveland, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Detroit and Dallas, the FAA said.
According to a statement by the Federal Aviation Administration, there were more than 1, 025 delays in the system on Tuesday attributable to staffing reductions from the furlough.
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Mr. Huerta and the FAA appear to have ignored the directive, shovelled out the bonus money, and then turned a budget cut of roughly 4% into a furlough of air-traffic controllers on 10% of their scheduled workdays.
The FAA said 1, 025 delays on Tuesday were "attributable" to staff cuts from the furlough, alongside 975 caused by other factors.
The furlough days will either precede a federal holiday or be on a Friday or Monday.
Second, he painted Dukakis -- whom he (accurately) called "a card-carrying member of the ACLU" -- as soft on crime, using as his cudgel Dukakis' support for a prisoner-furlough program.
Now, I believe that if you're a middle-class family and the father or mother in that family gets a notice in a couple of days, or has gotten a notice already, that he or she will be getting a furlough notice and that that furlough will take effect in 30 days, that doesn't have an impact on your family in 30 days.
The Department of Defense has informed Congress it will have to furlough 750, 000 workers, and the Navy has told Virginia it will have to cancel maintenance on 11 ships.
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