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Flying Solo
A recent Northwest Airlines incident highlights how jets can more or less fly themselves. But does that really make passengers feel safer?
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Environment Committee Republicans Ditch Climate Hearing
Senate Republicans have made little secret of their intent to oppose cap-and-trade legislation. Last week Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe—possibly Congress's most vocal climate change skeptic and opponent of climate legislation—threatened that if environment committee chair Sen. Barbara Boxer tried any funny business before the markup of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act , such as not giving members enough time to review it, he would lead a boycott of the meeting among all Republicans on the committee, on which he is the ranking member. It would have been a brazen move to slow the committee’s debate by simply not showing up, thus causing the body to not make quorum. But for a party impotently in a 7-12 minority, Inhofe recognized that his options are limited. “The only leverage we have is the quorum leverage,” he told The Washington Post late last week.
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BSI: Bird Strike Investigation
As the latest hearing on Flight 1549 gets under way, we go inside the nation's top lab for investigating collisions between airplanes and feathered creatures.
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05/23/2009Letters to the EditorMay 25, 2009 ‘Obama On Obama: An Exclusive Interview’
…Transportation is a place where creativity and problem solving are being used to tackle transportation challenges facing America (" Ray LaHood , Transformed"). Will thinks Secretary LaHood would be crazy to believe that 0.01 percent of Americans will ever regularly …
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05/16/2009George F. WillRay Lahood, Transformed
…asphalt and concrete. Furthermore, the new transportation secretary , Ray LaHood , was until January a Republican congressman ……homes can be. And to think that Republican Ray LaHood , Secretary of Behavior Modification, is an …
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05/05/2009BlogsLaHood: The Bipartisan Thing
Mark Leibovich profiles Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in the NYT today. It's an interesting study of the pragmatism of the White House (specifically Rahm Emmanuel) and the refreshing …
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04/20/2009Blogs100 Day Watch: When Will Obama Let His Aides Do the Talking?
…funding for high speed rail projects. At both events, he was joined by Vice President Biden and Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood , both of whom would be entirely capable of delivering word of what’s happening on their own. But it wouldn’t have gotten nearly the …
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04/04/2009Leadership and the EnvironmentThe Lioness In Spring
…Obama Cabinet seem to have only nice things to say so far. "I give her very, very high marks," says Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood , a Republican, who says he's been to six meetings chaired by Browner already. "She's very inclusive …
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