purposely caused situation. let s be clear. the sequester was a law written by congress. congress wrote the law. congress passed the law. members of congress should read the law. this imperial attitude on the part of the administration you are the most recent example of that imperialism is disgusting. this is chaos and passengers are are being punished for the sequester. can you assure the american people that what you are doing will have no effect on safety? it will have no effect on safety but this effort will be efficiency. there is no need. there are plenty of ways to accommodate the sequester without this kind of behavior which is impacting the way people live their daily lives. greta: house republicans grilling the faa administrator about the sequester imfact on air travel. the faa warning there are more flight delays ahead. everyone is talking efficiency but how about danger.
them. this has been out there a long time. greta: the administrator declined to answer representative rogers repeated questions about whether he and other administration officers discussed transferring money including funds in the larger transportation department to rectify this. there are solutions. and they could request reprogramming from congress. they have not made that request. greta: why aren t they? they don t have a good answer other than so say he well said, it wouldn t be enough. are it would go a long ways towards being enough and find other ways to impact this that doesn t impersonnel so essential to public health and safety. greta: if there is a problem and that is code for something i m saying it the nice way but if there is a serious problem because of the fur are lowed air traffic controllers this will be blood on every member of congress, senate president s hands.
there is no it punishment if it doesn t happen. they sit open for months and years and the government is paying money. greta: paying money to ourselves. which then is spent to administer the depository. money that goes out the door. greta: it is waste. say you are the department of agriculture and you have given out a grant you are spending the money that you got from congress to do something else with to help farmers have, spending that maintain a bank a account that has zero in it. it goes to the health and human services department. they spend it on salaries and contractors. running the bigger system ha that has a piece of it just empty. greta: 890 this year. how much did we spend in 2011? $2 million in 2011. the government accountability office did a survey back then and found out it was $2 million. the number has gone down. the obama administration made an effort to close out a lot.
them. this has been out there a long time. greta: the administrator declined to answer representative rogers repeated questions about whether he and other administration officers discussed transferring money including funds in the larger transportation department to rectify this. there are solutions. and they could request reprogramming from congress. they have not made that request. greta: why aren t they? they don t have a good answer other than so say he well said, it wouldn t be enough. are it would go a long ways towards being enough and find other ways to impact this that doesn t impersonnel so essential to public health and safety. greta: if there is a problem and that is code for something i m saying it the nice way but if there is a serious problem because of the fur are lowed air traffic controllers this will be blood on every member of congress, senate president s hands.
sometimes it doesn t happen and there is no it punishment if it doesn t happen. they sit open for months and years and the government is paying money. greta: paying money to ourselves. which then is spent to administer the depository. money that goes out the door. greta: it is waste. say you are the department of agriculture and you have given out a grant you are spending the money that you got from congress to do something else with to help farmers have, spending that maintain a bank a account that has zero in it. it goes to the health and human services department. they spend it on salaries and contractors. running the bigger system ha that has a piece of it just empty. greta: 890 this year. how much did we spend in 2011? $2 million in 2011. the government accountability office did a survey back then and found out it was $2 million. the number has gone down. the obama administration made an effort to close out a lot.