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...It’s almost like Congress deciding Gore vs. Bush,” he said...
...were cut almost in half, to 275. "I don't think the market will bottom out until the middle of next year," projects Jack Pelton, Cessna's CEO. "Then we will slowly crawl out of this predicament when corporate earnings improve in 2011." The demonization of corporate jets by Congress, prompted initially by the CEOs of the Detroit automakers, has helped kill thousands of jobs. The corporate-aviation market provided 1.2 million high-wage jobs in the U.S. before the financial crisis...
...with what he saw as “fundamentally flawed” policies like “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina, Woods decided to run for a seat in the U.S. Congress from California’s 10th district...
While Woods failed to win a seat in Congress, students at the event said his story was inspiring for young people interested in advocating progressive policies...
...Senators over lunch in the Mansfield Room just off the chamber, Mellman quoted Benjamin Franklin: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." According to one person who was there, Mellman invoked memories of 1994, when the party lost control of both houses of Congress in the wake of its failure to enact Bill Clinton's health care initiative. And he noted that the chief casualties in that election had been moderates, many of whom had tried to distance themselves from the President. What Democrats will need more than anything else in this midterm-election season...