Republicans campaign for more efficient government, so it’s dispiriting that the GOP can’t pass a bill to trim federal payrolls by some 35,000 employees. This week Republicans abandoned a sensible reform to air-traffic control, and the episode shows how parochial interests have corroded the political process. House Transportation Chairman Bill Shuster announced that his bill to spin off the Federal Aviation Administration’s air-traffic control operation into a nonprofit corporation lacked the support to move forward. A diverse...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 03, 2018 00:00 UTC