NATCA: House Republicans' Unwillingness to Put Safety Over Political Ideology Apparent in House Passage of FAA Bill
U.S. Newswire, October, 2003
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- It's been 98 days since a Congressional conference committee began desecrating the legislative process under cloak of darkness by destroying an air traffic control privatization ban unanimously passed by both the House and Senate. Today, House Republicans continued to undermine the will of the public with a vote that leaves the world's safest air traffic control system vulnerable to privatization. "Many months ago our members of Congress talked with great eloquence about how putting profits before safety nearly ruined our nation's space system," said John Carr, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.
"Today, a narrow majority proved that their words weren't quite sincere. Let's hope that Congress ten years from...
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
