House Panel Rejects Funds for Extra Controllers

NO SALE The House Appropriations Committee isn't buying the administration's plan to start hiring extra air traffic controllers in anticipation of wholesale turnover within a few years, as controllers brought in after the 1981 Patco strike become eligible to retire. Zeroing the FAA's $14.1-million...

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