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By Richard Cowan and Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress on Friday approved a plan to ease nationwide air-traffic delays caused by federal spending cuts, seeking to calm irritated travelers but sparking a backlash from groups still being hit by budget cuts. The Senate unanimously voted for the plan late Thursday and the [...]
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House seen moving quickly to ease air-traffic delays
Posted by admin on April 26th, 2013
By Doug Palmer and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The House of Representatives is expected to act quickly on Friday to finalize a Senate plan to ease nationwide air-traffic delays caused by last month’s automatic federal spending cuts. The Senate plan, passed unanimously late Thursday, will give the Department of Transportation flexibility to use unspent [...]
Senate passes bill to ease FAA furloughs
Posted by admin on April 26th, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — With flight delays mounting, the Senate approved hurry-up legislation Thursday night to end air traffic controller furloughs blamed for inconveniencing large numbers of travelers. Tweet This Post
Obama to GOP Senate: ‘Ease up on the filibuster, guys.’ GOP to Obama: ‘Fat chance.’
Posted by admin on March 15th, 2013
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Senate Democrats plan fresh push to ease home refinancing
Posted by admin on January 30th, 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Democrats will propose legislation as early as this week to extend a government program that aims to help homeowners with government-backed loans to refinance, according to aides on Capitol Hill. The proposal would expand on a housing relief bill that Senators Robert Menendez and Barbara Boxer failed to gain traction on [...]
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No Comments »Senate changes its rules to ease gridlock
Posted by admin on January 25th, 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democratic-led U.S. Senate changed its rules on Thursday in a bid to ease partisan gridlock blamed for turning the chamber into a legislative graveyard. Approved on back-to-back votes of 78-16 and 86-9, the changes fell far short, however, of what many of President Barack Obama's Democrats had wanted. The revisions preserved [...]
Exclusive: BOJ may ease again, double inflation target – sources
Posted by admin on January 9th, 2013
TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan will consider easing monetary policy again this month as it eyes doubling its inflation target to 2 percent, sources say, as weakness in the economy threatens to delay the country in getting out of deflation. Any easing will likely take the form of another increase in the BOJ's [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: again, double, ease, exclusive, inflation, Sources, Target No Comments »Regulators ease key bank rule to spur credit
Posted by admin on January 7th, 2013
BASEL, Switzerland/LONDON (Reuters) – Global regulators gave banks four more years and greater flexibility on Sunday to build up cash buffers so they can use some of their reserves to help struggling economies grow. The pull-back from a draconian earlier draft of new global bank liquidity rules, which aim to help prevent another financial crisis, [...]
Xi for vendetta? Revolutionary movie airs in China, raising hopes that censorship might ease
Posted by admin on December 20th, 2012
BEIJING, China – Television audiences across China watched an anarchist antihero rebel against a totalitarian government and persuade the people to rule themselves. Soon the Internet was crackling with quotes of “V for Vendetta’s” famous line: “People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.” Politics News Headlines – [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Air's, censorship, China, ease, hopes, might, Movie, raising, Revolutionary, vendetta No Comments »China moves to ease alarm over South China Sea plan
Posted by admin on November 30th, 2012
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Southeast Asia's top diplomat warned on Friday of great anxiety over China's plan to board and search ships that illegally enter what it considers its territory in the disputed South China Sea and said it could lead to naval clashes and undermine confidence in East Asia's economy. Beijing, however, moved to ease [...]
