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the white house says it's willing to consider a bill that would give the administration more power to prevent air traffic controllers from being furloughed, but it also warns that kind of assistance to the federal aviation administration would only be a band-aid approach at a time when sequestration is affecting vital programs government-wide.

白宫表示愿意考虑立法，给予行政部门更多的权力以避免空中交通调度员休假，但是白宫也警告称，这种对联邦航空管理局提供的协助，只能是在自动减支计划影响到政府的重要项目时采取的权宜之计。

a ban on construction work and smokestack industries has forced employers to pay furloughed workers.

关闭建筑工地以及冒烟产业的规定迫使雇主付费给暂时休假的工人。

This means they're back at work directing planes, flight pads, takeoffs and landings at airports nationwide. Thousands of them were furloughed.

这表示他们回到工作岗位上，指引全国机场的飞机、飞行面板和起降。上千空中交通管制员被休假了。